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[Java] What can I say, I like 'Pulse for Eclipse'

Pulse is a tool for managing installations of the popular Eclipse IDE.

To be up-front, while the tool is free, it is developed and supported by Genuitec, who also make the MyEclipse IDE. While they both come from the same company, MyEclipse is not forced on you or heavily advertised in Pulse. "Use MyEclipse or not, we're happy" appears to be the thoughts at Genuitec.

Being even more up-front, I am one of the people that choose to hand over their own money to use the MyEclipse IDE.

Having said that, Pulse supports both Eclipse and MyEclipse installations, plugin management and upgrades equally well (in my experience). Before using Pulse I had tried managing my Eclipse upgrades and abandoned it each and every time. There were a few issues with the previous version of Pulse, but since then I have not had a single issue and love having the ability to easily stay up to date with Eclipse (and of course MyEclipse) without resorting to complete reinstallations each time I wanted a new feature. These observations are all based on my experience, I have spoken to others that have not had the same ease of use, possibly due to proxy issues, but I have certainly never considered removing Pulse.

TrackBacks[0] Comments[1] Posted by davo on 6 August 2008 10:13:35

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Yes, I definitely agree. I was really tired with installing from scratch from time to time. It is nice to have someone else managing redundancy of software (no double binaries but when necessary), compatibility issues, repositories fetching and UPDATES! I always ended up with - for some reason - impossible updates! I was really fed up with that. Then, suddenly, I discovered Pulse and, with it, Aptana Studio, FileSynch and Mylin... Woah! It was nice, really nice!

Comment from Alberto Vassena on 28 October 2008 19:17:22

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