[ecf-dev] plans for api refactoring and new exemplary application

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

Since ECF is getting closer to 1.0.0 and then Europa participation, I 
think we have two major tasks in front of us:

1) Refactoring the ECF APIs and hardening them in preparation for 1.0.0
2) Creating a more complete, more functional 'showcase' ECF application

For 1, I've created a wiki page with a set of proposed API refactorings 
to focus on prior to 1.0.0.  Please examine these items and comment on 
them (i.e. and/or add others) via the wiki page directly or via this 
mailing list.  The page is at "ECF API Refactoring Efforts": 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/API_Refactoring

For 2, there are a few 'big questions'.  First, what comm functionality 
should we focus on?  Also, how many/what features to put in the given 
app?  Mustafa Isik has created a second refactoring wiki page "ECF 
Applications Refactoring Efforts": 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Application_Refactoring).

Please 'weigh in' on these two efforts by commenting on and adding to 
these two wiki pages, or responding to this posting.  We have a fair 
degree of latitude on both sets of issues, and we have a number of 
possibilities given the range of features in the existing IM, chat, 
collab, discovery, shared editing, file transfer, whiteboarding, voip, 
multi-player game example and test code (which can, of course, serve to 
provide support code for a completely new exemplary application and 
supporting plugins).

Scott