ECF plugins will be built in Java and will be portable to any platform supported by Eclipse. For components that might not run on Eclipse (e.g. servers), all ECF-created code will be built to depend only upon pure Java Standard Edition (1.4+). We also will look to support OSGI Foundation as a minimum runtime platform.
You will need the following already installed on your machine:
java version "1.4.2_04"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_04-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_04-b05, mixed model