Corona is the Eclipse Tools Services Framework that enables collaboration of people and/or software components. Collaboration is the process of two or more entities working together for a common goal. Collaboration occurs within a context of a container used to host the collaboration.
Examples of collaboration context include:
As the Tools Services Framework, Corona provides an Eclipsed based server-side environment to host tools server-side components. This provides the platform for a tool to manage their collaboration context within a distributed environment.
Corona's server-side environment supports the execution of multiple "servers". These servers are OSGi applications that are (optionally) started when the Corona server is started. Corona provides the main OSGi application used to manage the start/stop lifecycle of the secondary server applications. The following server applications are provided as samples: