| Re: [ecf-dev] ECF Generic Server |
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bill Michell wrote:
>>
>> I'm about to start my first development project with a significant
>> offshore element, and I'm evaluating ECF as a collaboration tool. In
>> particular, I'm interested in the shared editing capabilities - presumably
>> this means DocShare and COLA.
>
> Yes, that's right. We are also currently working on a Google Wave-based
> provider...i.e. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280347 but
> this is not done by any means.
Bill, you may also be interested in bug 238966. Though as I noted on the bug, its relevance may be on the decline with a Wave provider.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=238966
>> Supposedly, there is a context menu entry added to text editors labelled
>> Share Editor With... - though I've never successfully seen this.
>
> Yes. This appears on the context menu of the editor that you wish to share
> only when
>
> a) you are *connected to* an IM provider (e.g. XMPP)
> b) your roster/contacts list has at least one active/online user
Note that not all IM providers supports this. The IM provider has to have a datashare provider implementation up and running also.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF_Providers
>> There is a lot of documentation about starting up a Generic Server under
>> Equinox, but this seems to be outdated - and I have seen suggestions that it
>> doesn't support DocShare anyway.
>
> That's currently correct...the generic server doesn't support docshare. The
> reason for this is simply that docshare (as an example app), hasn't been
> implemented on the server side of things (i.e. without a real editor/ui).
> It's not a big technical job to do so, but it just hasn't been done.
Well, with the example collab + generic server docshare should work. This was part of the work I did for bug 256980. Unless that has since been broken for some reasons. It has been a year after all.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=256980
>> I really need to host any required server component internally for
>> security and stability reasons.
Did you try looking at the wiki page about how to run the generic server?
http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF_Servers
Regards,
Remy
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Remy Suen
Eclipse Platform/UI Committer
IBM Ottawa
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