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Before installation, please read http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/coffee-soft/wiki/Ec-CoFFEE_Release_5.0 for pre-requisites.
Ec-CoFFEE plug-in is a set of synchronous collaboration tools for Eclipse that is built on the top of the CoFFEE framework (www.sourceforge.org/projects/coffee-soft). The collaboration does not require a server, but (because of firewalls) is based on local area networks. Among the tools: threaded discussion tool, graphical tool, drawing tool, cowriter, internet explorer, document browser, XMind, positionometer (votation tool), chat, ....

Ec-CoFFEE adds a new menu to the main menu bar, allowing the user (while using the traditional Eclipse functionalities to support the development of the software) to:

- Launch a Server or a Client (pre-requisite to begin with the collaboration),
- launch a tool (only the server can launch the tool),
- load a discussion previously saved,
- stop the Server/Client (when the collaboration is over).

When a tool is launched, it can be configured on-fly, by using the functionalities the tool itself exposes. A wide variety of different configurations can be obtained, such as anonimity of contributions, etc. for each tool.