ECF New Features

IRC Improvements

A number of improvements were made to the handling of multiple IRC servers and channels. For example, now a separate view is provided for each server account.

ECF API Additions and Changes

Remote OSGi Services API

A new API has been introduced for accessing remote OSGi services. The ECF remoteservices API is found in the plugin: org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice. This API resembles the OSGi services API, but is designed to specifically support accessing remote services via either synchronous or asynchronous messaging. That is, remote services can be invoked with call-return semantics, as with local services, but the remote services API also exposes asynchronous invocation of remote OSGi services as an option for the client of the service. See also the test code in the plugin org.eclipse.ecf.test.remoteservice

See the javadocs for the org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice package, and the org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservices.events package. See wiki discussion about remote OSGi services here.

File Transfer API

A new API has been introduced for easily doing file retrieval and initiating file sends. The ECF file transfer API is found in the plugin: org.eclipse.ecf.fileshare.

See the javadocs for the org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer package, and the org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer.events package. Also see the test code in plugin org.eclipse.ecf.test.fileshare.FileTransferRetrieveTest.