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Eclipse Che is an open source project that allows anyone to contribute to a project without installing software. Che defines a new type of workspace that is composed of projects and runtimes, making its state distributable, portable and versionable. It uses VMs, containers, and Web services to bring repeatability, consistency, and performance to workspaces.
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Pro Application previews
Che does a nice job to automatically map the service:port running in a Docker container (e.g. tomcat on 8080) to the Docker port it actually uses (something in the ephemeral range). It is possible that you never need to figure that out as it's just made available when you run your server.
Pro Portable workspaces
The workspace in Che includes project sources, IDE and the runtime. So if you hand your Che workspace definition to another user and they execute it they will get everything they need to build, run and debug the project.
Also the runtime is in a Docker container so it will work even if the second user is on a different OS than the original user who shared their workspace with them. Also the runtime is in a Docker container so it will work even if the second user is on a different OS than the original user who shared their workspace with them.
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Con Requires Docker
Docker requirement also is a CON for people who have Home editions of Windows 10 and so have hurdles applied since Docker is not Windows 10 Home edition friendly. However, Docker Toolbox can be used to mitigate the limitations said Windows 10 version.
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Pro SSH + terminal
Built-in terminal with root access so you can make changes to your running machines. Being able to SSH into the workspace so you can use a desktop IDE is handy.