Sobalipse is an Eclipse plugin, which realizes realtime collaboration. Sobalipse enables you to do work with remote users, such as, tele-pair programming, realtime code reviewing, and so on.

Sobalipse has the following features.

• Immediately you can communicate with worldwide programmers.
• Sobalipse is a pure Eclipse plugin, so you need no installation.
• As with ordinally IM softwares(e.g. Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger), you need no network setting, even though your PC is protected by Firewall.
• No restrictions.
• Sobalipse does never limit any Eclipse feature, e.g. powerful code assistance.
• Sobalipse does not make users feel network access delay.
• Sobalipse does not get slow, even though users share more than 100 files.
• Any kind of editor is usable.
• You can collaborate not only with Java editor, but also with any kind of Eclipse editor (e.g. Java, C++, PHP, JSP, XML, ...).

Sobalipse is a framework. You can easily develop Eclipse plugins for realtime collaboration with Sobalipse plugins development API.