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  <TR><TD colSpan=2><H2>New ECF Providers for MSN and Bittorrent Protocol Support</H2></TD>

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	<B>MSN Provider</B>
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        MSN Messenger provider added to support ECF-based instant message and presence via MSN Messenger Accounts.  
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	<B>Bittorrent Provider</B>
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        Bittorrent provider added for file retrieval.  
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	<B>Peer-to-Peer File Transfer for XMPP Accounts</B>
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        Peer-to-peer file transfer (using the ECF file transfer API) was added for XMPP accounts.
        
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	<B>Instant Messaging History API</B>
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      Added history API for accessing chat history information.  See <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=177014">bug #177014</a>
      for details.
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	<B>Chat Robot API</B>
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      Added robot API and extension points for creating robots that can chat via IM or chat rooms.  See bug <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=180078">180078</a>
      for details.  This API allows robots to be defined via two new extension points in the new plugin <b>org.eclipse.ecf.presence.bot</b>.
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      For example, here's the definition of an imrobot 'Fliwatuet' that will connect to the account at <b>fliwatuet@ecf.eclipse.org</b> and
      then receive messages and notifications via the imcommand handler class <b>org.eclipse.ecf.presence.bot.DefaultIMMessageHandler</b>:
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   &lt;extension
         point=&quot;org.eclipse.ecf.presence.bot.imRobot&quot;&gt;
      &lt;imRobot
            connectId=&quot;fliwatuet@ecf.eclipse.org&quot;
            containerFactoryName=&quot;ecf.xmpp.smack&quot;
            id=&quot;org.eclipse.ecf.presence.imbot&quot;
            connectPassword=&quot;password&quot;/&gt;
      &lt;/imRobot&gt;
   &lt;/extension&gt;

   &lt;extension
         point=&quot;org.eclipse.ecf.presence.bot.imMessageHandler&quot;&gt;
      &lt;handler
            imRobotId=&quot;org.eclipse.ecf.presence.imbot&quot;
            class=&quot;org.eclipse.ecf.presence.imbot.MyIMMessageHandler&quot;&gt;
      &lt;/handler&gt;
   &lt;/extension&gt;
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      Here's an example for use of the chatroomrobot extension point for connecting to an IRC channel:
      
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   &lt;extension
         point=&quot;org.eclipse.ecf.presence.bot.chatRoomRobot&quot;&gt;
      &lt;chatRoomRobot
            chatRoom=&quot;#eclipse-ecf&quot;
            connectId=&quot;irc://slewis2_@irc.freenode.net&quot;
            containerFactoryName=&quot;ecf.irc.irclib&quot;
            id=&quot;org.eclipse.ecf.presence.bot.ircbot&quot;&gt;
      &lt;/chatRoomRobot&gt;
   &lt;/extension&gt;

   &lt;extension
         point=&quot;org.eclipse.ecf.presence.bot.chatRoomMessageHandler&quot;&gt;
      &lt;handler
            chatRoomRobotId=&quot;org.eclipse.ecf.presence.bot.ircbot&quot;
            class=&quot;org.eclipse.ecf.presence.bot.MyChatRoomMessageHandler&quot;&gt;
      &lt;/handler&gt;
   &lt;/extension&gt;
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      See also the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Bot_Framework">Bot Framework</a> tutorial.
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	<B>Discovery API Simplification</B>
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      Small simplifications to the discovery API.  For example, removed some methods from <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/org/eclipse/ecf/discovery/IDiscoveryContainerAdapter.html">IDiscoveryContainerAdapter</a>.
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	<B>Support for All Equinox-based Runtimes</B>
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    Removed references to packages and classes that are Eclipse-based.  For details see
    <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=176322">bug #176322</a>.  With this change, all non-ui ECF
    bundles (i.e. those whose name does not end with *.ui) are able to operate in all Equinox configurations...e.g. 
    servers, RCP apps, eRCP, and/or Eclipse.
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