Due to changes in this blog, I had to rework the update site.

Please use http://rse.midrange.com as the Eclipse update site for the RSE plug-in.

I just tested the plug-in with RDp 8 and it seems to work fine.

You will have to install the plug-in in RDp 8.  Just follow the instructions from this page.

If, after you add the update site, you don’t see the plug-in … try deselecting the “Group items by category” option.

What functionality would you like to see this plug-in have?

My goal is to have it contain many small, incremental, enhancements to RSE that will be of use to IBM i developers.

The only thing on my list at the moment is to add a better editor for 2nd level message text.

Here’s a screen shot of the current version.

As you edit the text in the lower pane, the formatted text in the upper pane will be updated.

If you have idea, feel free to post it here or email me privately.

OK, it’s been a while, but I’ve finally gotten the plug-in updated to work with RDi 7.5 & higher (this includes RDP).

The installation is even easier now … just add http://plugin.midrange.com/update to the Eclipse update site and the plug-in will install. It will also allow you to easily update it when new releases are available.

I’ve also decided to ‘stabilize’ the WDSC 7.0 / RDi 7.1 version of the plug-in, so new updates will only be made to the RDi 7.5+ version.

I have a bunch of ideas for new capabilities for the plug-in … so keep an eye on this space.

For those of you intersted, the handouts for the session I presented at COMMON are available here.

Sorry for the delay … but I’m now working on updating this plug-in to work with RDi 7.5.  I hope to have something available later this week.

If you’re attending COMMON in Reno this spring, I’ll be presenting an Introduction to RDi Plug-in Development session.

The other day Mike Wills posted a message in the WDSCI-L list asking if there were a way to have the Remote System Explorer tree in WDSC show an objects description to the right of the objects name.

After thinking about it a bit, I determined that what he wanted was a “label decorator” for the RSE tree.  This, I figured, would be fairly easy to add as a stand alone plug-in.

When I got home I did a bit of hacking in WDSC and came up with a (very) simple plug-in to acomplish what he was looking for.

I created the plug-in and put it up on Google Code … it’s not quite ready for an automated install, but you can play with it if you want … visit http://rse-enhancements.googlecode.com to get the source.