The Perforce Plug-in for Eclipse and WebSphere Studio

P4WSAD, the Perforce Plug-in for Eclipse and WebSphere Studio, enables you to access Perforce from within the Eclipse IDE and the Rational/WebSphere Studio WorkBench family of products, including:

  • 3.2.x through 3.3.x (Release Builds only)
  • IBM Rational Application Developer 7 (based on Eclipse 3.2)

The previous release, 2006.2, is still available for Eclipse 2.x and IDEs based on Eclipse 2.x. See the Release Notes for details.

P4WSAD Features

  • Support for all basic Perforce file operations.
  • Views for pending changelists, submitted changelists, revision histories, and a Perforce console.
  • Batch resolve of files.
  • Built-in differencing, job support, rename, and move.
  • Support for automatic file checkout and numbered changelists.
  • Decorations for Perforce-managed files, including indicators for files that are synced, opened, locked, or unresolved.
  • UTF-8 is supported for Unicode-enabled servers.
  • Work offline when the connection to the Perforce Server is not available.
  • Check Consistency Option: You can check your workspace for files not under Perforce control, files that are changed but not open for edit, and files that are missing but not open for delete. This is especially useful when reconnecting after having worked offline.

New Features included for Release 2008.1

  • In the Perforce specific view, users can visually distinguish files which are not associated with an Eclipse project(s).
  • See the Release Notes for a complete list.

Perforce Compatibility

  • P4WSAD can be used with Perforce Server versions 2002.2 and above. To connect to a Unicode enabled server, the plug-in requires a p4 command line client of version 2003.2 or later.
  • P4WSAD is supported only on Windows XP/2003/Vista and Linux (x86/GTK 2).

Installation

  • To install P4WSAD, open the Software Updates from Eclipse or IBM Rational and create a new site bookmark with the following URL:
    http://www.perforce.com/downloads/http/p4-wsad/install/
  • P4WSAD 2008.1 is currently in beta, to retrieve the current stable release, 2007.3, uncheck the "Show the latest version of a feature only" option in "Update Manager" / "Find and Install" to have it listed.
  • Please uninstall any previous version of P4WSAD prior to installing this version. Uninstall instructions can be found in the P4WSAD Release Notes.
  • A zip file for local installation can be found on our ftp site. Please see the Release Notes for installation instructions.
  • For further details and complete installation instructions, see the Release Notes.

Please contact Perforce Technical Support with any P4WSAD questions.

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