Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse Luna

Question

I was searching for a Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse Luna but I could not find any. I found couple of editor plugins like:

1. Veloeclipse
2. Velocity Editor
3. Veloedit <--------------- This is now working on Luna 4.4.1!
4. QIQU
5. Velocity Web Edit

None of this worked for Eclipse Luna. Does anyone else know any other plugin for editing Velocity files in Eclipse Luna?

Thank you in advance!

Solution 1

You can install support for 2.0 style plugins using Help > Install New Software.

Select the 'Eclipse Project Updates' site (http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.4).

You will find 'Eclipse 2.0 Style Plugin Support' in the 'Eclipse Tests, Examples and Extras' section.

Install it.

After, simply install Veloeclipse or other old "2.0 style" plugin

Solution 2

Veloedit worked, following the installation instructions from their github page: https://github.com/vaulttec/veloedit

Installation

Online updates are available from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vaulttec/veloedit/updatesite/. Define a site bookmark in Eclipse's Update Manager view, navigate to the update site via this bookmark and install the Velocity UI feature.

Solution 3

Veloedit seems the most prominent option for file editing, but it has installation problems currently. More information about the current status in active SourceForge bug.

Comments

[Aksiom]

Thanks for the info. Very useful!

[Kevin Sadler]

I can confirm that this answer also works for Eclipse Mars. Regarding the different editors veloeclipse provides syntax highlighting for HTML as well as velocity, whereas veloedit only highlights velocity.

[Sumit Kamboj]

I did not find Veloeclipse in marketplace after installing 'Eclipse 2.0 Style Plugin Support'.

[user3336882]

You have to add the update site manually, as per the Veloeclipse link by Dmitriy: veloeclipse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/update How to add a software site: help.eclipse.org/mars/…

[Dmitriy]

Google Code was closed some time ago, and the only option to get the code of the project now is to download it as Subversion working copy archive: https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-source/v2‌​/code.google.com/vel‌​oeclipse/source-arch‌​ive.zip. You can try use extracted archive as a source of plugin with Eclipse "Install New Software", but cannot guarantee success, sorry. // This year i've moved to Idea with its built-in plugin that works great!