How to set up Eclipse and PDT for Cola and DocShare through ECF

1. Follow the instructions to install ECF:
http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/downloads.php

2. In my example let's use gmail as a communications protocol:

• Open the 'Communications' perspective
• Click the icon that says 'Connect to Provider'
• Select XMPPS
• Input your gmail account and password

3. ECF has a limitation so that you can only use it with the default text editor and the Java editor, but we want to use it with PDT:

• Open ../eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.ecf.docshare_2.0.0.v20080623-0024.jar
• Open the file plugin.xml
• Paste in this XML:
  

<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.menus">
<menuContribution
locationURI="popup:org.eclipse.php.core.phpsource.source.EditorContext">
<dynamic class="org.eclipse.ecf.internal.provisional.docshare.menu.DocShareRosterMenuContributionItem"
id="org.eclipse.ecf.docshare.php.dynamic3">
</dynamic>
</menuContribution>
</extension>

Now you should have a new menu entry in PHP editing mode that displays "Share Editor With"