[news.eclipse.technology.ecf] Re: Can not run Cola example

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aaron,

Aaron Yu wrote:
> I have installed the ECF plugin, and try to run the Example Shared Text 
> Editor. I follow the instructions in the wiki 
> (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Example_Shared_Text_Editor), and start an ECF 
> server on localhost:3282 first. Then I start two eclipse instances, and 
> connect to my ECF server. The two instances can talk to each other, and 
> one instance can send screen capture, send private message and ring the 
> other one, but can not send file. In the wiki, it says that I can adjust 
> connection parameters in eclipse preferences (team -> ECF Editor 
> Sharing), but I do not have this entry in my eclipse preferences. When I 
> create a java or text file in one instance and right click on the file, 
> I don't have the Team -> Initiate Shared Session entry. In addtion, I 
> don't have Team -> Shared Editor Session entry in File -> New neither.
> I use eclipse 3.4 and ECF 2.0, and I start my ECF server in a separated 
> eclipse instance. I can not use the MSN, XMPP and IRC provider in my 
> firm. Can anybody give me some suggestions to find out the problem?


The main problem is that we have some history here.  Before Cola was 
created/introduced, we had a shared editor (described by 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Example_Shared_Text_Editor) that was completely 
'optimistic'...i.e. it had none of the error correction that Cola has.

We've pretty much deprecated this old work (and removed it from the 
codebase) in favor of concentrating on Cola/DocShare.  My apologies for 
not removing the old documentation...I've updated that page to now point 
to the DocShare/Cola documentation.

So currently, the ECF generic server and client example collaboration 
application does not support running Cola/Docshare...rather we focussed 
initially (in 3.4/ECF 2.0.0) on running Cola/Docshare with XMPP, Skype. 
 It can/could rather easily support running docshare, since Docshare 
uses the ECF datashare API (org.eclipse.ecf.datashare), and the ECF 
generic server and client also support the datashare API BUT so far we 
have not added the logic to make a DocShare instance available on the 
ECF generic server and the collab example client (which is pretty much 
all that it would take).  This is only because we haven't been able to 
get to it.  If you would like us to focus on this specifically please 
open an enhancement request for that (e.g. 'Add support for RT shared 
editing to example collab application').

Again, my apologies for the out-of-date documentation.

Thanks,

Scott