ECF Downloads

[new] ECF 3.6.0 Now Available (3/11/2013)

ECF 3.6.0 requires Eclipse Indigo (3.7.*), or Eclipse Juno (3.8). See here to get appropriate version of Eclipse.

See New and Noteworthy for details of the contents of this release.

See ECF Wiki and/or the ecf dev at eclipse.org mailing list for further information about plans and ongoing project activities.

ECF 3.6.0 Install via p2 repository

For a detailed step-by-step description of how to install OSGi Remote Services into Eclipse see Installing Into Eclipse. For a step-by-step description of how to add OSGi Remote Services into your Target Platform see Add to Target Platform.

  • In Eclipse, choose Help -> Install New Software...
  • Click on the Add button on the right.
  • Type in a Name in the textbox. For example, type: ECF 3.6.0.
  • Paste the following URL into the Location field.

    http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.6.0/site.p2
  • Click OK.
  • Select the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) check box. NOTE: This check box will result in including 5 sub-items. If you de-select the 'Group Items by Category' check box in the lower part of the install manager dialog, several more options for ECF components will be made visible and available to install.
    1. ECF Filetransfer Patch for Eclipse
    2. ECF Target Components for Eclipse
    3. ECF Remote Services Target Components
    4. Source for ECF Filetransfer Patch for Eclipse
    5. Source for ECF Target Components
  • Click on Next.
  • Follow through the remaining dialogs to complete the installation.

To uninstall ECF SDK...

  • Choose Help -> Install New Software...
  • Click on already installed (lower part of install manager dialog)
  • Click on Installed Software tab
  • Click on ECF Target Components
  • Click on Uninstall ...

ECF 3.6.0 Install via Zip

  • The ECF SDK zip contains all ECF plugins from the Eclipse Foundation, as well as source code. The zip is a p2 update site. When you unzip it, you will have a local p2 update site and can then add an update site using the 'local'

    File    Build Date   
    org.eclipse.ecf.sdk_3.6.0.v20130309-0714.zip  3/11/2013

ECF Dailies

  • The Daily builds are the latest untested or lightly tested builds.
    Daily Builds      
    To get the latest Daily Build from HEAD, add the following URL to Available Sites. http://build.ecf-project.org/repo/N-HEAD-sdk.feature/ This repository updates every day.
    We have stopped saving the zips of the daily/nightly builds from HEAD 

ECF Source Code

For access to Eclipse Foundation ECF source code, see our Eclipse Foundation git repostiory

For access to ECF Extras source code, see our github repository

ECF Extras Plugins

Built versions of ECF extras plugins are periodically created by the ECF builder and available in the builder downloads area

ECF Extras source code is available via our area at Github - http://github.com/ECF

ECF Build Types

See the ECF Buckminster/Hudson builder for the available ECF builds.