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| Re: ECF ongoing sub-projects [message #606323 is a reply to message #605299] |
Fri, 07 July 2006 20:05   |
 Erkki Lindpere
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I've been working on a generic API for accessing (remote) web forums in
Java. I also have two almost-complete provider implementations using
HttpClient and Regular Expression based HTML parsing: phpBB and
vBulletin. After recently starting to look into ECF, I'm seeing some
similarities with ECF. I think with a bit of work my API could be
refactored to be based on ECF. It would add a new container type (for
example IBBContainer -- Bulletin Board Container). Actually, I already
started experimenting with this, but so far I'm just providing access to
my current API from a container class.
From the start I planned to make this API open source eventually, but
only recently I've had the idea of basing it on ECF. It's certainly not
as interesting as the other things in ECF (Presence, VOIP, file sharing,
shared editing etc.) and to be honest, I don't really see that many
potential uses for it (yet?), but besides a totally unrelated personal
project, I've also started using this in a phpBB provider extension for
Mylar (where forum threads would be mapped to tasks).
Do you think something like this could be interesting for ECF?
Scott Lewis wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've tried to capture the publicly-known set of ECF sub-projects here:
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> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Eclipse_Communication_Fram ework_Project
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> If I've missed efforts that ECF community members would like included
> here, please let me know. Other efforts that can/could make
> contributions to ECF itself are welcome.
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> Please provide any comments/thoughts/criticisms about these projects to
> this mailing list, and the ECF newsgroup.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
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| Re: ECF ongoing sub-projects [message #606336 is a reply to message #606333] |
Sun, 09 July 2006 11:02 |
Erkki Lindpere
Messages: 90
Registered: July 2009 |
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Hi Chris and Scott,
Thank you for the encouraging feedback. Please note that the progress of
this project might not be as fast as you might expect, as I'm doing this
out of the little free time I spend programming and I've been working on
it slowly for over a year now, with one complete redesign already behind
me. But I'm hoping that interest in my work will motivate me to work
faster :)
PS. This API is currently part of an OSGi/Eclipse-based server project
that runs interactive fiction game virtual machines and makes those
games playable over forums or instant messaging (in the beginning it was
just forums, but with ECF, I was able to add preliminary IM support with
just a few hours of coding).
And one of my main motivations to base the bulletin board API on ECF is
that I will then be able to treat both IM and forums in a more uniform way.
Scott Lewis wrote:
> I agree...this sounds awesome!! Thanks for letting us know...and
> considering ECF as target for work!
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> I created a blank page on the ECF Wiki
>> ( http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Eclipse_Communication_Fram ework_Project)
>> for this project. We would love the contribution as I see some cool
>> things you can do with this.
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>> If you need any help with ECF APIs, please let us know and we'll
>> gladly help.
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> Indeed...you can use the newsgroup, the ecf-dev mailing list
> (ecf-dev@eclipse.org), or direct communication with any of ECF committers.
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> Thanks!
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> Scott
>
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>> Cheers,
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>> ~ Chris
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