ECF Team Editor

Today I found[1] out about a very nice tool for cooperative programming. It is based on eclipse and I used the following to get started:

• eclipse 3.5
• ECF 3.0 through update
• google mail account
• open communications perspective
• login with google mail 
• add contact
• project with same: name, package and files
• share workspace to collaboration
• host: share editor with

This enables two computers running eclipse to share a common code editor. It even offers simultaneously coding in the same file! That's pretty amazing. I don't know exactly how this could be used in a professional environment but for a quick hack session this seems ideal.

[1]http://live.eclipse.org/node/543
Some further references on the topic:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/DocShare_Plugin
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