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| <TR><TD colSpan=2><H2>ECF New Applications and Features</H2></TD> |
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| <B>New Example App: Real-time Shared Text Editing</B> |
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| <P>There is a new example plugin: <b>org.eclipse.ecf.example.collab.editor</b>. This plugin provides an example |
| of real-time shared editing of text files. See <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/downloads.php">here</a> to download and install |
| (see "Shared Text Editor"), and |
| <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Example_Shared_Text_Editor">here</a> for an explanation of how to |
| setup and run this example application.</P> |
| <img src="images/screens/sharededitor.jpg"> |
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| <B>Add Buddy Menu Item</B> |
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| <P>There is now an 'Add Buddy' menu item in the context menu for accounts |
| in ECF buddy list view. This supports the sending of an authorization request to |
| a propective buddy.</P> |
| <img src="images/screens/addbuddy.png"> |
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| <B>Change Password Menu Item</B> |
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| <P>There is now an 'Change Password' menu item in the context menu for accounts |
| in ECF buddy listview. This supports the changing of a password on XMPP servers.</P> |
| <img src="images/screens/changepassword.png"> |
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| <B>Autologin for ECF Accounts</B> |
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| <P>It's now possible to have ECF automatically login in to a set of accounts upon Eclipse startup. To have ECF login to a given account, |
| simply open the ECF 'Connect' dialog and select the 'Login automatically at startup' check box before choosing OK: |
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| <img src="images/screens/autologin.png"> |
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| The next time that you start Eclipse, this account will automatically be logged into with the given information. To remove an automatic login |
| simply login again with the autologin check box left unselected. <b>NOTE</b>: the password information is stored in cleartext in the Preference store for |
| a given workspace, and so is insecure. |
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| <B>New Extension Point: org.eclipse.ecf.startup</B> |
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| <P>There is now a new ECF extension point <b>org.eclipse.ecf.startup</b>. This extension point allows plugins to be |
| called in a separate Job during ECF startup. This so that ECF client applications can create IContainer |
| instances and connect to remote services upon ECF startup. Extensions must implement the |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/core/start/IECFStart.html">IECFStart</a> interface. |
| Upon ECF start, the <b>startup</b> method will be called via a separate Thread/Job. |
| Here's an example extension definition for this extension point: |
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| <extension |
| point="org.eclipse.ecf.startup"> |
| <ecfstart |
| class="org.eclipse.ecf.example.collab.start.CollabStart"/> |
| </extension> |
| </pre> |
| At ECF startup time the <b>org.eclipse.ecf.example.collab.start.CollabStart.startup</b> method will be called by a new Job. The ProgressMonitor |
| parameter will be non-null. |
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| <B>Removed unnecessary method in org.eclipse.ecf.core.events.ISharedObjectActivatedEvent</B> |
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| <p><br></p> |
| <P>Previously, <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/core/events/ISharedObjectActivatedEvent.html">ISharedObjectActivatedEvent</a> |
| had a method getGroupMemberIDs(). This method is superfluous so removed from ISharedObjectActivatedEvent and implementing class org.eclipse.ecf.core.events.SharedObjectActivatedEvent. |
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| <B>Made IContainerEvent notifications for ISharedObjectContainer consistent</B> |
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| <P>Made the IContainer event notifications include shared object activated (ISharedObjectActivatedEvent), deactivated (ISharedObjectDeactivatedEvent) |
| consistent and added to <b>org.eclipse.ecf.provider</b> implementation the appropriate construction and delivery of these events via any listeners |
| added to the IContainer via <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/core/IContainer.html#addListener(org.eclipse.ecf.core.IContainerListener,%20java.lang.String)">IContainer.addListener</a></p> |
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| <B>Refactored Presence API</B> |
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| <P>Refactored the interfaces in the <b>org.eclipse.ecf.presence</b> API, specifically in the |
| <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/presence/chat/package-summary.html">org.eclipse.ecf.presence.chat package</a> |
| <p>Changes to <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/presence/chat/IChatRoomManager.html">IChatRoomManager</a></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>ADDED <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/presence/chat/IChatRoomManager.html#getParent()">IChatRoomManager.getParent()</a></li> |
| <li>ADDED <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/presence/chat/IChatRoomManager.html#getChildren()">IChatRoomManger.getChildren()</a></li> |
| <li>REMOVED createChatRoomContainer()</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Changes to <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/presence/chat/IRoomInfo.html">IRoomInfo</a></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Reparented IRoomInfo to extend IAdaptable</a></li> |
| <li>ADDED <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/presence/chat/IRoomInfo.html#createChatRoomContainer()">IRoomInfo.createChatRoomContainer()</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| Now, the typical way to connect to a chat room is shown by this example code: |
| <pre> |
| IRoomInfo roominfo = chatroommanager.getChatRoomInfo("roomname"); |
| IChatRoomContainer chatroom = roominfo.createChatRoomContainer(); |
| chatroom.connect(roominfo.getRoomID(),null); |
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