Web site: sourceforge.net/projects/ace/
Category: Office
Subcategory: Text Editors
Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows
License: GNU GPL
Interface: GUI
Wikipedia: ACE Editor
First release: 2006
ACE Editor – a platform-independent, collaborative text editor. It is a real-time cooperative editing system that allows multiple dispersed users to view and edit a shared text document at the same time.
ACE enables several people to edit a text document together, i.e. at the same time (multi-authorship). Each person works with the ACE editor on their own computer. All participants are connected via a network (LAN, Internet) and see the same document content at all times. If someone in the group makes a change to the document (for example, they write the word “signature” at the end of the document), this is displayed in real time and synchronously to all other users. Each user thus has an overview of the changes in the document and can see who edited what and where in the document. This is supported by different text background colors for each participant in an editing session (see graphic).
ACE automatically recognizes all users in the local subnet (see Bonjour technology). The desired documents can be published for collaborative editing. The owner of the document can then invite the users to edit.
ACE is distributed as free software, including in source code, under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It runs on the Java runtime environment, which is available for all known operating systems such as Windows or various Unix derivatives (Linux, MacOS, …).
The last version of ACE m4 was released in 2006.
The ACE screenshot source: Wikipedia; License: GNU GPL.
