Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF)

Running a Collaboration Server on Localhost

  1. Download ECF projects from CVS into your workspace as described here.
  2. Choose Run... or Debug... from the Eclipse Run Menu.
  3. Under 'Java Application' choose 'ECF Collab Server'.
  4. Choose 'Run' (or Debug).
  5. This will run a simple server on your localhost machine with the ECF URL: ecftcp://localhost:3282/server. You can then connect to this server with an Eclipse client as described in Connecting an ECF Collaboration Client to an Existing Server above.
  1. Install the ECF 'Server Feature' as described here
  2. From operating system shell, go to /features/org.eclipse.ecf.serverfeature_/bin
  3. Depending upon operating system, use 'startserver.cmd' (windows) or 'startserver.sh' (Unix) to start a localhost server. See the file ../conf/server.xml to setup configuration information for the localhost server