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| <h1><img src="../../intro/css/images/ecf_intro.gif">Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF)</h1> |
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| <h2>System Requirements</h2> |
| <p>ECF plugins will be built in Java and will be portable to any |
| platform supported by Eclipse. For components that might not run on |
| Eclipse (e.g. servers), all ECF-created code will be built to depend |
| only upon pure Java Standard Edition (1.4+). We also will look to |
| support OSGI Foundation as a minimum runtime platform.</p> |
| <p>You will need the following already installed on your machine:</p> |
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| <li>Java version 1.4.2 or newer...1.5 or 1.6 OK also |
| <pre>java version "1.4.2_04"<br>Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_04-b05)<br>Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_04-b05, mixed model</pre> |
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| href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/">Eclipse version 3.3 or newer</a><br> |
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| Earlier Eclipse Platform versions will work with some of the ECF APIs, but we have not tested them. Also, |
| we recently have taken advantage of the new UI features in 3.3 (tooltips improvements, menuContribution extension |
| point, etc), and that's why we now depend upon version 3.3. For ECF APIs (plugins/bundles that do <b>not</b> |
| have *.ui in their bundle id), they generally support older runtime versions. See the manifest.mf for each |
| plugin if you want to know the execution environment requirements for each bundle.<br> |
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