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The Launcher

Double-click your workspace and go!

Managing several Eclipse workspaces is a challenge. Likely each workspace was created with a specific toolchain: some workspaces are intended for C++ development, while others for Java development. Your workspaces may require specific plug-in versions and a variety of Eclipse specific settings. With Yoxos 5 you no longer need to manage these configurations yourself, instead you double-click your workspace and go!.

Bundle PoolingWith Yoxos 5, you can launch your workspace and your Eclipse IDE will start up including all the plug-ins you want to work with in that workspace. If it’s a new workspace you’ll get things like predefined settings, and import projects automatically adjusted. Additionally, Yoxos 5 manages all your plug-ins through a centralized bundle-pool saving you both time and disk space. This approach ensures that Eclipse start-up is lightening fast, because each plug-in you use is downloaded just once and reused whenever you need it for a new Eclipse IDE.

 

What our users are saying

Yoxos offers a huge advantage to plain Eclipse - its especially effective when you can automatically have source management and project checkout including preferences and codestyle etc..

For everyday work it's a boost in productivity not having to mess about with having everybody set up with identical IDE's and workspaces.

Michael Dahl
Department of Computer Science
Aarhus University

Yoxos Profiles

How many workspaces do you manage?

ProfileYoxos 5 unifies the workspace settings and its IDE description in a Yoxos Profile. A Yoxos Profile is defined in a .yoxos file. The Yoxos Launcher creates Yoxos Profiles and starts them, for example when double-clicking the .yoxos file. Yoxos profiles define the configuration of your development environment, the configuration of many 3rd party tools, workspace settings and the location of your source repositories.

Plug-ins at the ready

As you’ve come to expect from Yoxos tools, Eclipse plug-ins are served to you with all dependencies resolved. In addition, the Yoxos 5 repository has been decomposed into slices, one slice for each Eclipse release. By choosing a slice, you can be confident that all plug-ins were built to run with that version of Hot New Product Showcase at EclipseCon 2011Eclipse. The Yoxos repository contains over 20,000 different plug-ins so you'll never need to hunt for an update site again.

 

Sharing

Pass the workspace, please

When you create an account on Yoxos 5 it means that you can share your IDE with your colleagues, with all the plug-ins and configurations they need to pick up where you left off. New team members get exactly what they need to get started. And, switching among all the projects you’re working on takes just a few seconds.

Planning your upgrade path 

In the Yoxos 5 Launcher, you’ll find tools to manage your upgrade path. You can preset each of your profiles for the type of upgrades you’d like - from full versions to leading edge experimental builds.

When you update your profiles, the changes are automatically shared with all team members. When a profile that’s been updated is launched, your colleagues will be given the choice to follow your update / upgrade path.

Preserving project configurations

Employee turnover and lack of availability is fact of doing business. Having an employee archive their entire workspace (or collection of workspaces) for future reference is simply not tractable. With Yoxos 5, you can recreate a replica workspace with ease, whether the configuration is 5 hours or 5 years old.

 

 

Yoxos 5 Enterprise

If like many organizations, you have several Eclipse development teams and requirements for secure, inhouse provisioning processes, Yoxos 5 can be installed on your servers. You’ll have all the benefits of fast start up, sharing and customized components, in addition to the ability to centrally manage your enterprise-wide Eclipse installations.

SecureSource: Certified Components

Yoxos SecureSource is a subscription-based service providing secure access to a certified repository of Eclipse and other open source plug-ins. All contents of the SecureSource repository are validated using a standards compliant process and signed to guarantee pedigree and authenticity.

>>More about SecureSource

Repository Designer

We provide specialized tools for centrally creating and managing multiple development environments for your teams. With Repository designer you can essentially create a snapshot - a Yoxos Slice - of a combination of several p2 repositories or update sites.

Find out more

For more information on getting a trial installation of Yoxos 5 Enterprise, contact info@eclipsesource.com.

 

 

 


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