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| <font class="indextop style2">eclipse communication framework<br>project home</font> |
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| <font class="indexsub">an eclipse technology subproject</font> |
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| <b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica"> About the ECF Project</font></b> |
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| The Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) is a project to enable the |
| creation of communications applications on the Eclipse Platform. The framework provides |
| APIs for secure asynchronous and synchronous messaging to deliver |
| human-to-human, human-to-plugin, and plugin-to-plugin communications and collaboration. |
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| ECF is intended to support three types of plugin developers: |
| <ol><li>Developers of communications <b>applications</b> (end-user visible complete applications).</li><li>Developers |
| of communications <b>components</b> (communications features designed to be reused among |
| multiple applications)</li><li>Communications |
| <b>infrastructure developers</b> (providers of standard and/or proprietary communications |
| protocols...e.g. SIP/SIMPLE, XMPP, JMS, JXTA, etc)</ol> |
| ECF provides open, secure APIs and extension points so that |
| others may easily build applications, reusable communications components, or extend the |
| framework itself in order to interoperate via standard and/or proprietary communications protocols. |
| <br><br>The ECF project |
| will also provide complete demonstration and example applications such as Eclipse project team instant |
| messaging/chat, data and voice conferencing, application sharing, real-time and asynchronous model sharing, |
| and team access to web-based services such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and Weblogs. |
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| <b>What's New</b> |
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| <b>December 6, 2004 - ECF project launched on eclipse.org</b> |
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| <b>November 12, 2004 - ECF project approved by eclipse.org</b> |
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| <b>August, 2004 - Eclipse Communications Framework proposal</b> |
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| <b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica"> Upcoming</font></b> |
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| <b>Working on the <a href="plan.html">Milestone 1 Plan</a>... due Q1 2005</b> |
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