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| Re: [ecf-dev] Re: Using ECF to connect to a session-based JSON-RPC	service | 
Hi Cole,
If you create a new rest-based provider based upon this code, please 
consider contributing back some documentation and/or code, reporting 
bugs or desired enhancements for your use case (or even better making 
those enhancements yourself)...or even just blogging about what you do 
with it publicly.  Given the resource limitations for ECF 
project/committers, one of the hardest things is to get sufficient 
documentation about the things that are already present in ECF...but 
there's not good/sufficient documentation and therefore insufficient 
awareness.
I have plans for an ECF book, but it's very likely that any such thing 
will have to use 'crowdsourcing' to help create the documentation...i.e. 
taking/aggregating contributions from the community, probably in the 
form of wiki pages.  That's one reason why I've tried to make more and 
more docs about remote services, rest, etc available via the ECF wiki:  
http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF
Some other comments inline below.
Cole Markham wrote:
Scott,
Thanks for your reply, this was exactly what I was looking for.
Scott Lewis wrote:
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Also...BTW...ECF SDK includes the org.json parser code (in the 
org.json bundle), and we have test code that uses the twitter 
API/json.  So using json is done very easily...all necessary code is 
there.
  
Yes, my colleague, Austin Riddle, is working on getting the org.json 
bundle in orbit.
Yes, I'm aware of this.  It's my intention to move the ECF build from 
building/deploying the org.json code ourselves (what we are doing now), 
to using the Orbit bundle before RC1.  We just have not had an 
opportunity to make this change to our build since the org.json bundle 
was added to Orbit.
If this is unclear or more info desired...or more questions...please 
move this discussion to ecf-dev at eclipse.org so that (more) others 
can benefit.  Go here to join the mailing list if you haven't already:
  
I guess the newsgroup I originally posted to is deprecated, I'll post 
here in the future.
Actually the newsgroup is still alive...changing names of newsgroups 
doesn't work very well, so ECF still has a newsgroup name that is:  
eclipse.technology.ecf because we started out in the technology 
project.  We are now in the runtime project, but the old newsgroup is 
still valid.
The reason it's better to post to ecf-dev is that there are more people 
(both ECF committers and contributors, etc) who monitor/respond to 
questions more regularly on the ecf-dev mailing list.  But both the 
newsgroup and mailing list are still valid.
Thanks,
Scott