Shared Editing

Collaborative editors/editing is an important application area for Eclipse, the Rich Client Platform, and ECF. Eclipse and Eclipse RCP are ideal frameworks for creating structured editors of many kinds: source code editors, graphical model editors, xml editors, html editors, etc. With ECF, it is possible to add both real-time and non real-time collaboration for such editors.

ECF will provide frameworks and exemplary shared editors. We have the following efforts working together:

• Newer Efforts (2007 and ongoing)
  • Real-time Shared Editing
  • Sharing Editor Selections
  • DocShare Plugin

• Older Efforts (2006 and prior)
• Graphical Shared-Editor Example Application - A simple graphical network model editor that allows multiple participants to simultaneously add, position, and connect simple graphical models
• Example Shared Text Editor - A collaborative text editor for doing real-time editing of a text document