Re: [ecf-dev] SharedObjects over XMPP

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mario,

Mario Scalas wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>   
> > Thanks so much for doing this summary...it looks excellent .  In fact,
> > with some additions and minor tweaks I would like to add it as an ECF
> > wiki page at
> >
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Communication_Framework_Project
> >
> > And then link to it from the FAQ, other docs, etc.  Would this be OK
> > with all of you?  It would make a tremendous community contribution.
> > Note it would have to be under the Eclipse Public License (as all
> > materials in the eclipse wiki are).
> >     
>
> We are very glad to accept! We wrote the notes for helping ourselves to
> learn about ECF and to have feedback and we are pleased to have something to
> contribute back to the community (after polishing, of course: the notes have
> been written in brief amount of time and the English is also needing
> improvements).
>
> Are you going to port them in the wiki? We have no access to the Eclipse
> wiki ...
>   

I would be willing to put them on the wiki for you, but you can/will 
have write access to the wiki as long as you have a bugzilla login.  Do 
you have a bugzilla login (free)?  See the top of the wiki main page for 
info and links:  http://wiki.eclipse.org/Main_Page


>  
>   
> >  Welcome to the ECF team!
> >     
>
> Thanks!!
>  
>   
> > Documentation contributions are more than welcome for ECF, BTW...as
> > like
> > other volunteer projects we never have enough documentation, and our
> > resources are limited.
> >
> > And RE: your statement at the bottom:  "An interesting improvement
> > would
> > be the construction of a Dynamic Proxy on top of the domain object to
> > handle the sharing concern or just use an aspect to transparently
> > decorate objects that are properly annotated".  I agree completely with
> > you...this would be a *very* interesting addition.  Another aspect to
> > this...we are soon going to be adding an r-OSGi-based
> > (http://r-osgi.sourceforge.net/) implementation of the ECF
> > remoteservices API, and r-OSGi uses ASM (http://asm.objectweb.org/) to
> > create dynamic proxies.  Once approved via IP process, we can/could
> > also use ASM to create dynamic sharedobject proxies as you describe.
> >     
>
> I did know about the ASM library (I'm using it in a toy project of my own to
> perform Google Guice ([1]) integration within the Eclipse adaptors hook [2],
> but I'm working on it on my spare time so it is still in early stages).
>
> We would like to perform class manipulation at load time (using ASM) but for
> now we are using AspectJ to perform class enhancements at compile time.
>
> I'm interested in the R-OSGi (I read a few papers about it) and I think that
> (at least) I'm going to learn how to improve my ASM skills ;)
>   

Just FYI, Jan Rellermeyer just submitted CQ's for contributing r-OSGi 
and an ECF provider based upon r-OSGi to ECF.  So r-OSGI will be in ECF 
Ganymede (2.0.0) distribution.

Thanks...please let me know if you want help with reviewing and/or 
contributing this to the wiki.

Scott



> Thanks again and regards
> Mario
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/
> [2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Adaptor_Hooks
>
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