[ecf-dev] datashare for rt collab over xmpp

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

I wanted to relay something 'new and cool' quickly.

In response to bug/enhancement request 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=183029

I created a new plugin that uses datashare API to dynamically share URLs 
to people in one's roster.  (i.e. Send URL... as context menu item along 
with "Send IM", Send File, etc).

This plugin is extremely simple (3 classes without Activator), and also 
adds UI to the MultiRosterView using the Eclipse 3.3 menuContribution 
for adding actions to dynamically created menus.  Here's the project:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ecf/plugins/org.eclipse.ecf.presence.collab.ui/?root=Technology_Project

The core code for sending and receiving URLs is the URLShare class

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ecf/plugins/org.eclipse.ecf.presence.collab.ui/src/org/eclipse/ecf/presence/collab/ui/URLShare.java?root=Technology_Project&view=log

See the 'sendURL' and 'handleMessage' methods for the send and receive 
code respectively.

The basic form of this is quite generalizable to other sharing 
situations...e.g. sharing Mylar task contexts, sharing workbench 
artifacts, exchanging state changes for shared editors, etc.  Note also 
that this same code will work on all providers that support 
datashare..i.e. xmpp, ECF generic, skype (soon), others.

I'm going to use this, I think, to create a simple tutorial for datashare.

Scott