Thanks again for your collective advice.

I'd rather not maintain a local development environment, as MidLifeXis pointed out this can get tricky. This is the main reason why I was looking for something that would debug/execute under the remote environment.

For the same reason, I don't think that using the Windows implementation of sshfs will help me out. I'd still be using the Windows perl interpreter in my editor.

I think I will take fullermd's advice, run Eclipse through X forwarding as the server is local to my development machine. This seems to meet all of my requirements and I get to keep the IDE that I am accustomed to.