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

[fan.yu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Aaron Yu)]

Scott Lewis wrote:

> Hi Aaron,

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 Again, my apologies for the out-of-date documentation.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

Thank you very much. I think ECF server is not the best way to solve my 
problem. So I will wait for SIP provider coming, and run DocShare/Cola 
then.