In the past, client/server was de rigure, everyone owned their own applications/data/servers, now it seems vendors are willing to pay you or discount your expense so they can hold your data and applications.  I wonder how many hosted application providers have the integrity to not cannabalize your data/leads? And what repercussion could that have, and how would you even know that it occurred, after you lost the deal?

For sometime, I’ve been working to use Eclipse with various ASF projects.  In lieu of any obvious standout plugins, I tried them all: mevenide, m2eclipse, and q4e.  After some number of months, I’m finally pretty happy with the use of q4e from googlecode.  There is some secret sauce to the concoction, but the essence of what I have discovered is that the 0.7.0 code seems to work well on the classic version of eclipse version r 3.3.2.x on either Linux or Windows.  The  version working for me is available at:

http://q4e.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/updatesite-dev

It is installed via the Help–>Add new features–>Find and install method of altering the eclipse configuration.   It appears this may work with the WTP version of eclipse as well, but I have not tested that configuration.