Difference between revisions of "Corona Demo M4"

Revision as of 15:28, 25 May 2006

The Corona demo illustrates basic event collaboration between multiple Eclipse Workbench instances. This demo will be continuously updated as new features and capabilities of Corona are introduced.

The demo includes both client (Eclipse Workbench) and server (Corona server-side Eclipse platform) distributions.

Corona Server

1. Install the Corona server
   1. Download the distribution corona_0.2.0_demo_server.zip
   2. Unzip Corona Server into a directory. We will refer to this directory as <CoronaHome>
2. Start the Corona Server
   1. Open a shell
   2. Navigate to installation directory of the Corona Server <CoronaHome>/corona_0.2.0_demo_server/eclipse
   3. run the command: <CoronaHome>/corona_0.2.0_demo_server/eclipse/corona

Corona (Workbench) Client

1. Install Eclipse 3.2RC3 (or later)
2. Install Corona client plugins
   1. Download [Corona client|plugins.zip] distribution
      1. corona_0.2.0_demo_client.zip
      2. Note: includes both Equinox event and ECF bundles
   2. Unzip Corona client to the Eclipse 3.2RC3 plugin folder
   3. Update the Eclipse configuration config.ini
      1. Modify the settings for osgi.bundles
         1. Append the following plugins to be automatically started
            1. org.eclipse.ecf@3:start
            2. org.eclipse.corona.ecf.client@4:start
            3. org.eclipse.corona.collaboration.client@5:start
3. Start Eclipse Workbench
4. Configure Eclipse Workbench
   1. Modify Corona Preferences
      1. Open the Corona preferences page: Window/Preferences/Corona
      2. Set the IP & port of the Corona server
5. Open the Corona Collaboration View
   1. Window/Show Views/Other/Corona
   2. Select Event List
   3. For more details see Corona Event List

Note

The workgroup collaboration demo works best with 2 or more Eclipse Workbench clients

Create a Collabration Project

1. Create Workbench project named "TestCollaboration""
   1. Note: Do not put any spaces in project name. The project name is used to identify the workgroup
2. Add Collaboration Nature to project
   1. Right-Mouse-Click on project, select __Corona Collaboration__
3. Update the Collaboration Project
   1. Create the source file Test.java
   2. Update the source file Test.java
4. All local workbench project events should be shared with the workgroup.