Eclipse Open Collaboration Tools is a set of libraries, extensions and tools for integrating collaborative editing with multiple editing paradigms (textual, graphical, etc.) and in multiple IDEs or other applications.
The basic idea is simple: one person starts a collaboration session as host and invites others to join. The IDE extension distributes the contents of the hostʼs workspace and highlights text selections and cursor positions of other participants. In parallel, they get together in their favorite meeting or chat app for immediate discussion. All participants see what the others are looking at and what changes they propose in real-time. This way of remote collaboration reduces confusion and maximizes productivity.
The project includes the following components:
- A protocol definition based on JSON messages, with a reference implementation in TypeScript
- A Node.js based server for handling authentication and forwarding messages between participants of a collaboration session
- A VS Code extension for collaborative text editing
- Additional integrations: Eclipse IDE, Monaco Editor, and more to come
An integration with Eclipse Theia is already included in the Theia project.
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