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What is the Target Communication Framework (TCF)?

April 26, 2017communication framework target TCF

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What is the Target Communication Framework (TCF)?

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The Target Communication Framework (TCF) is a new incubating component of the Eclipse Target Management Project. TCF is available on Eclipse SVN (ViewSVN access) and can easily be imported into a workspace with the tcf-anonymous.psf team project set. See bug 210751 for discussions leading to contributing TCF to Eclipse. TCF is a vendor-neutral, lightweight, extensible network protocol mainly for communicating with embedded systems (targets). Its most distinguishing feature is that TCF is designed to transparently plug in value-adding servers between the tool and the target. But even without value-add, the protocol has potential to unify lots of currently independent communication links, thus saving resources and making setup and configuration much easier than in current embedded development scenarios.