Hi Chris,
Chris Aniszczyk wrote:
+1
This work will probably encompass taking some of the roster information
offline which is a good thing.
I don't really expect so at this point...as even if the roster
information is available persistently offline, it doesn't make much
sense to expose actions/commandhandlers (like share current editor with
soandso, etc) because the actions are generally worthless when offline
(e.g. you can't start a shared editing session with a user that is
offline).
If I have some spare cycles I would love to help.
That would be great. I think the trickiest bits will have to do with
setting/resetting the command handlers dynamically (with the
IServiceLocator I guess). I expect you, Remy, and Boris have more
knowledge of this than I do so anything that shows doing this sort of
thing (creating menus dynamically, and assigning actions to dynamically
constructed items) would be helpful.
I also noticed that ECF hasn't submitted anything to EclipseCon yet :)
https://eclipsecon.greenmeetingsystems.com/submissions
I noticed that too. I will be submitting something...probably around
remote OSGi services and/or ECF overview, but I haven't decided what.
I hope that we can get other submissions from committers...i.e. around
topics such as
RT Shared Editing
Presence and IM APIs
Bots
Committer Community, IRC, XMPP, and Communication
Discovery
VOIP
Others of interest...
These are just some ideas. I imagine others have other ideas as well.
Scott
Cheers,
---
Chris Aniszczyk | IBM Lotus | Eclipse Committer | http://mea-bloga.blogspot.com
| +1.860.839.2465
 Scott Lewis
---10/27/2007 06:07:45 PM---Hi Folks, We at BEA have/will/are doing
some work with using ECF to add real-time
Hi Folks,
We at BEA have/will/are doing some work with using ECF to add real-time
shared editing to commercial and OS editors...i.e. text editors,
structured editors (e.g. java, other langs, xml, etc), graphical
editors, and the like.
I was thinking yesterday was that it is typically unnecessarily
difficult to setup a sharing/editing session. It usually has to be
explicitly done by one or both participants prior to the actual shared
editing...and it's often error prone.
This is true also of the existing cola shared editor...the setup of the
shared editing session is kind of cumbersome.
I had one thought about how this could be easier...and I thought I
would
throw it out to the mailing list:
Let's assume that user 'slewis' has a (e.g.) text editor open. At a
certain point, they decide that they would like to initiate a shared
editing session with another party (e.g. 'codesurgeon'). At that
point,
'slewis' has to initiate a shared editing session.
What if they simply opened the editor's context menu, and chose
'Share'->codesurgeon...and this initiated a shared editing session
with
codesurgeon. This begs the question, though...where does the
'Share'->codesurgeon menu come from? My answer: Using Eclipse's
new
dynamic menu contribution mechanisms, it could be dynamically created
from the ECF Contacts/buddy list. That is, when the user chose 'Share'
it could produce a menu hierarchy that corresponded to the entries in
the contacts list (whatever the active ones happened to be at that
moment)...allowing the initiator to choose the target user for the
shared editing session. The Eclipse menu contribution mechanisms
should
allow this (i.e. dynamic creation of hierarchical menus...plus the
ability to retarget actions), and ECF allows programmatic access to the
buddy list via IPresenceContainerAdapter.getRosterManager(). Further,
it would be possible to add such a thing in a new plugin (rather than
modifying the existing editor's code) to increase separation of
concerns.
Any thoughts/comments about this approach?
Scott
Let's also
That is, between...perhaps one way on how to setup a 'session for
shared editing' (between 2 participants is initial focus...2+ will
probably be for later).
_______________________________________________
ecf-dev mailing list
ecf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/ecf-dev
_______________________________________________
ecf-dev mailing list
ecf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/ecf-dev
|
