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| <TR><TD colSpan=2><H2>ECF API Additions and Changes</H2></TD> |
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| <B>New Extension Point: sharedObjectFactory</B> |
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| <P>There is now a new ECF extension point: sharedObjectFactory. This extension point allows plugins to define extensions to the |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/core/SharedObjectFactory.html">SharedObjectFactory</a>. |
| Here's an example extension definition for this extension point: |
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| <extension |
| point="org.eclipse.ecf.sharedObjectFactory"> |
| <sharedObjectFactory |
| class="org.eclipse.ecf.test.provider.TestSharedObjectInstantiator" |
| name="ecf.test.sharedobjectfactory"/> |
| </extension> |
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| This extension sets up the class <b>org.eclipse.ecf.test.provider.TestSharedObjectInstantiator</b> as |
| the extension factory associated with the name "ecf.test.sharedobjectfactory". |
| Note that the given class must implement the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/core/provider/ISharedObjectInstantiator.html">ISharedObjectInstantiator</a> interface. |
| See also documentation in the sharedObjectFactory extension point schema. |
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| <B>Factory method name changes</B> |
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| <P>For consistency with Eclipse Platform conventions, all ECF factory method names previously of the form 'makeX' have |
| been changed to to 'createX'. So, for example, in the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/core/IContainerFactory.html">IContainerFactory</a> |
| the <b>makeContainer</b> methods have been changed to <b>createContainer</b>. In the <a href="">IIDFactory</a> <b>makeID</b> has been changed to <b>createID</b>. |
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| <B>ContainerDescription class renamed to ContainerTypeDescription</B> |
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| <P>The <b>ContainerDescription</b> class has been renamed to <b>ContainerTypeDescription</b> to be more descriptive of the description's function.</p> |
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| <B>SharedObjectDescription class refactored</B> |
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| <P>The <b>SharedObjectDescription</b> class has been refactored into three (super and sub) classes: |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/core/SharedObjectTypeDescription.html">SharedObjectTypeDescription</a> |
| for describing the type of a given shared object, |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/core/SharedObjectDescription.html">SharedObjectDescription</a> |
| for describing shared object instances, |
| and <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/core/ReplicaSharedObjectDescription.html">ReplicaSharedObjectDescription</a>. |
| SharedObjectDescription instances are used (e.g.) for creating instances within a container, as in <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/core/ISharedObjectManager.html#createSharedObject(org.eclipse.ecf.core.SharedObjectDescription)">ISharedObjectManager.createSharedObject()</a>. |
| ReplicaSharedObjectDescription instances are used to send messages to remote containers for creating replicas of a given shared object...as in |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/core/ISharedObjectContext.html#sendCreate(org.eclipse.ecf.core.identity.ID,%20org.eclipse.ecf.core.ReplicaSharedObjectDescription)">ISharedObjectContext.sendCreate()</a>.</p> |
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| <B>Generic Server Changes</B> |
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| <P>The ECF 'generic' server available in the <b>org.eclipse.ecf.provider</b> plugin has a number of changes, which make it |
| incompatible with clients previous to 0.6.0. Users of the ecftcp://ecf.eclipse.org:3282/server collaboration group will |
| need to upgrade to 0.6.0 version of clients. See <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/downloads.php">here</a> to get the 0.6.0 code.</p> |
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| <B>JmDNS Discovery Provider Implementation</B> |
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| <P>The JmDNS discovery provider plugin is now available as the primary implementation of the <b>org.eclipse.ecf.discovery</b> API. |
| Several bugs in the underlying Zeroconf/Bonjour protocol implementation were fixed for the 0.6.0 release, including a bug that |
| would cause the plugin to hang on shutdown.</p> |
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