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        <font class="indextop style">eclipse communication framework</font>
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        <font class="indexsub">an eclipse technology project</font>
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        <font class="indextop style2">New and Noteworthy</font><br>2.0.0 milestone 4</font>
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	<B>Real-Time Shared Editing over XMPP/Google Talk and Skype</B>
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    The ECF team is working on supporting several use cases based upon real-time shared editing.  For example, online code reviews, collborative
    debugging and testing, and distributed pair programming.  We've just started this work, and there is now some 'signs-of-life' work
    that works on the XMPP/Google Talk and Skype providers.  See the page <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/DocShare_Plugin">DocShare plugin wiki page</a>
    for usage instructions and screen shots.  Please feel free to provide input/feedback about desired features at both the UI level and the 
    API level via the ECF mailing list <mailto:ecf-dev@eclipse.org> or the <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=ECF&bug_severity=enhancement">ECF bugs/enhancements list.</a>
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	<B>URL and Eclipse View sharing</B>
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       It's now possible to immediately share URLs and to remotely open Eclipse views via ECF the XMPP/Google Talk and/or Skype providers.
       To do so, open the context menu (right click) on the buddy of your choice in the contacts list:
       
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       Then the receiver will see a notification like this
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       And if they accept the request will then see
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       The 'Send Show View Request...' has a similar sequence.
       
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	<B>Discovery API</B>
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       The discovery API has been simplified and extended.  See <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=209774">bug #209774</a> and the
       <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/ECF_API_Docs#Discovery_API">ECF Discovery API</a> documentation.
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       <b>IMPORTANT NOTE:</b>The discovery API has undergone a number of simplifications that make it easier to use, but have broken backward compatibility.  Applications
       that have been written to a previous version of the discovery API will have to be changed to use the new API.  See the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/discovery/IDiscoveryContainerAdapter.html">IDiscoveryContainerAdapter</a>
       class for more information.
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	<B>FileTransfer API</B>
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    	Added support improvided simplified outgoing file transfer.  Added new provider for SCP-based file retrieve (download)
    	and file send (upload).  See documentation for <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF_API_Docs#File_Transfer_API">ECF File Transfer API</a>.
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