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Collabode

http://uid.csail.mit.edu/collabode

Collabode is a web-based collaborative software development environment powered by Eclipse and EtherPad.

To try out Collabode if you already have the Eclipse IDE for Java installed, download the Collabode plug-in and follow the "two-headed hydra" instructions below.

This system is a research prototype. The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. Do not use Collabode in a workspace containing code you have not backed up.

Running Collabode in development

  • Copy config/collabode.properties.example to config/collabode.properties and modify
  • Right-click the appropriate collabode.[os].[ver].launch configuration and select "Debug As"

Running Collabode as a headless server

  • Open collabode.product and select "Eclipse Product export wizard" to export the server application
  • Create a config file based on config/collabode.properties.example
  • Run the server with [path to exported eclipse] -config [full path to config] -data [full path to workspace]

NOTE: for OS X users, the exported Eclipse.app can be run from the command line with the following command: open -n ./Eclipse.app/ --args -config [full path to config] -data [full path to workspace]
if you would like to user relative paths, the config and data paths are relative to Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/ The data path should be an empty dir, Collabode with create a the correct project.

Running Collabode as a two-headed hydra

  • Download the plug-in .jar, or:
    • Copy config/collabode.properties.example to config/export/collabode.properties and modify
    • Open plugin.xml and use the "Export Wizard" to create a .jar
  • Drop the .jar into your Eclipse plugins directory
  • Launch Eclipse — to avoid changes to normal Eclipse behavior, use a different workspace for Collabode
  • If needed, use Window → Show View → Other... and enable "Collabode Server"
  • After launching the server, browse to http://localhost:9000/

Authentication in Collabode

  • Once you are running collabode, unless you are in Development mode, when you will be logged in as admin, you will need to authenticate. The default authentication scheme for collabode is to allow any username, where the password is the first 4 chars of the MD5 hash.
  • To find the password for any given username, the following command can be used: echo [username] | md5 | cut -c 1-4