We just announced that the Curl Development tools for Eclipse (CDE) is available in beta!  The CDE beta is a milestone in the general migration of all our tools to the Eclipse platform. You can still use the Curl IDE, which is written entierly in Curl and is excellent, but if you are an Eclipse user you can now develop applications in Eclipse 3.3 or later.  The reason we are moving to Eclipse is pretty simple: Eclipse dominates the IDE market and has a huge ecosystem.  Moving Curl development to Eclipse allows you to leverage hundreds of other tools built specifically for Eclipse and allows us to better serve the Eclipse market of developers.

If you prefer the Curl IDE than please stick with that, but if you are interested in learning how to use Eclipse or if you already use Eclipse than give the Curl Development tools for Eclipse a whirl - I think you'll find that they are excellent.  You can send feedback about bugs (there will probably be a few as this is a beta) directly to Curl's engineers at cde_beta 'att' curl.com. If you are having trouble using the Eclipse Curl development enviorment you can post questions to ask-the-expert and we will respond as quickly as we can. We want the beta to be a success and in order for that to happen we need you to help us build a great product.  Download the CDE (Curl Development tools for Eclipse) today and tell us what you think!

You can access the CDE here - it includes all the Eclipse plug-ins you need and documentation.  Have fun!!