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Eclipse ECF is a framework for supporting the development of distributed Eclipse-based tools and applications.

With the Galileo release Eclipse ECF provides also a nice Twitter client TweetHub. TweetHub is an Eclipse RCP application for communicating with Twitter.

It took me a while to gather the right information to make TwitterHub work. So I thought it might be helpful to blog about it so that this might be easier for others.

First you need to install the ECF SDK via the update manager from http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.0/3.5/repo.

To install TwitterHub you need to download the code from cvs. The cvs connection string is: :pserver:anonymous@ecf1.osuosl.org:/ecf

To learn how to use cvs see Eclipse cvs access.

Check-out the following plugins from the cvs location:

org.eclipse.ecf.provider.twitter.ui.hub.product
org.eclipse.ecf.provider.twitter.ui.hub
org.eclipse.ecf.provider.twitter

This should be sufficient. You should now be able to run the product.

So now you can use TwitterHub to follow me on Twitter.

I would like to thank Marcelo Mayworm who helped on in the eclipse.technology.ecf newsgroup.

Additional links:
ECL New and Noteworthy
TweetHub wiki .