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Re: [ecf-dev] update on XCDE integration
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This is very interesting news, Mustafa. Is there a link to their code
or website somewhere? Google searches for XCDE gives me nothing good.
Will they be willing to contribute their code to our ECF incubator?
On 7/26/07, Mustafa K. Isik <codesurgeon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> An hour ago, I had a twenty minute voice-chat with Andrew Craik on how
> their group went about shared editing with XCDE.
>
> What started out as a basic shared editing college project evolved
> into quite an interesting and advanced shared editing environment,
> with features beyond editor sharing.
>
> Aside from feature extensions to editors, such as displayability of
> multiple cursors representing users etc. their group also addressed
> workspace sharing issues.
>
> I learned from Andrew, that at its core XCDE, deals with
> synchronization issues in very much the same way, as the cola summer
> of code project, via operational transformations in a client-server
> topology.
> That is, the documentation at
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/RT_Shared_Editing should still prove
> helpful to understand the black magic behind synchronization in shared
> editing.
>
> What gets me thrilled, is how far Andrew, Larry, Tristan and Tom
> progressed with their sharing environment.
>
> Andrew is in the process of adopting the ECF Datashare API instead of
> direct network communication as a first step for integration with ECF.
>
> >From what I can tell, one of the challenges with integrating XCDE
> functionality with ECF and the Eclipse universe will be that according
> to Andrew they had to hack the source of the editor APIs in order to
> get to some functionality that was not obtainable in any other way.
> This also seems to be the source for them needing to "port" XCDE from
> different eclipse version to version.
>
> Given time, I will have a look at the XCDE code and work through an
> engineering report, that Andrew is digging up somewhere :)
>
> Exciting times for ECF shared editing.
>
>
> --
> Mustafa K. Isik
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> http://codesurgeon.blogspot.com
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