The Eclipse Che project, a cloud IDE and developer workspace server that also provides an open source alternative to the popular JetBrains IntelliJ Java IDE, has moved to beta release status.
Che features a workspace composed of projects and associated runtimes, or environments. Workspace configuration is persisted as versionable assets, and users can migrate workspace projects and runtimes to other Che instances, whether hosted locally or in the cloud.
The IDE manages a workspace lifecycle, dealing with orchestrating project state and suspending, imaging, stopping, or destroying workspace runtime environments. A Che environment is composed of machines powered by Docker or localhost.