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Bug 385279

Summary:	Shared editing / remote pair programming
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Matti Järvinen <matti.jarvinen>
Component:	Editor	Assignee:	Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	bugs.eclipse.org, codesurgeon, gabriel.luong, ken_walker, matthiasheinrich2, mlippert
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description Matti Järvinen

2012-07-17 05:35:26 EDT

Build Identifier: 

Since Orion runs on a webserver it could be possible to incorporate remote pair programming into Orion.

Examples like:
http://chaoscollective.org/projects/builtinspace.html
http://c9.io/
http://sharejs.org/

I haven't looked very deep into Orion but is it reasonable to build own editor for Eclipse project as far as I have looked ACE editor ( http://ace.ajax.org/ ) has a lot of Orion editor features built in and it has  MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-licensing so using it shouldn't be a problem.

Something to tickle ones brain on Operational Transformations needed in remote pair programming http://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Markus Kuppe

2013-06-27 03:11:17 EDT

FWIW: ECF [1] supports shared editing (DocShare) [2] in the Eclipse IDE for a couple of years now. It sits on top of ECF's implementation of operational transformation [3]. The latter would be a good candidate to serve as the server side code for shared editing in Orion.

[1] http://eclipse.org/ecf
[2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/DocShare_Plugin
[3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/RT_Shared_Editing

Comment 2 Ken Walker

2014-02-28 09:41:31 EST

Adding Silenio to give us the technical rundown of what this would take.  What's missing in the editor first.

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2015-05-05 14:41:42 EDT

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html