Eclipse 3.5 Unable to install plugins

Question

I really don\'t know what\'s going on with Eclipse 3.5 (3.5.0 or 3.5.1, same issues), but it\'s been now 2 days that I\'m struggling with Eclipse to find a way to make the p

Answer 1

We had tons of issues here, namely with the proxy support. We ended-up using Pulse: http://www.poweredbypulse.com/

Pulse has built-in support for a few plugin, however, you can add third-party plugin and even local jar file quite easily.

Strangely it does not always use the built-in Eclipse feature, so sometimes when Eclipse become difficult ( like in our case for the proxy business ), you can work-around it with Pulse.