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Re: [ecf-dev] getting started with ECF
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Thanks so much, Scott for your most thoughtful reply! It appears that
there is no such method
containerFactory.createContainer(String, String)
so I cannot do this
containerFactory.createContainer("ecf.generic.server","ecftcp://localhost:3282/server");
Most of the createContainer() methods require an ID as an argument,
but it seems that to create an ID, I need a container! (Circular
situation). I do not know how to create the proper namespace.
I am sure I am missing something silly. Many thanks for setting me straight.
Best,
Dave Donohue
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> David Donohue wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>> ECF looks like just what I need. I have 2 questions.
>>
>> My first question is: which protocols, service APIs, & architecture
>> should I use?
>> I want to have clustered OSGi applications, to permit handling a large
>> load on my calculation-intensive Eclipse RAP web application. I would
>> like to have my UI running as one OSGi instance. This UI would
>> balance load of many users by connecting to distributed data servers,
>> each running as OSGi service, and each storing the data for a
>> different set of users. These OSGi services might be running on the
>> same physical box or on distinct machines, within a network. The
>> client would be doing data operations. Ideally I could share objects
>> between client and servers.
>>
>
> Interesting. Incidently, I (Scott) have been working on a load balancing
> system for my employer (EclipseSource). I intend to present some of the
> work at Markus' and my ESE talk [1]. It load balances remote service
> requests (i.e. individual method calls on the service interface). We are
> using this to do load balancing of P2 planner operations...as the P2 planner
> can be computationally intensive for large numbers of features/IUs.
>
> We are currently using JMS/ActiveMQ as the remote service provider for
> ECF...because (among other reasons), JMS/ActiveMQ has support for load
> balancing semantics (distributing messaging/requests over n Queue
> consumers), and we can just use that to do load balancing of remote services
> rather than implement the load balancing semantics ourselves.
>
>
>> My second question is: how do I get started? I followed these
>> instructions.
>>
>> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Getting_Started_with_Using_the_ECF_Remote_Services_API
>> and I disabled r-OSGi on my Eclipse IDE. However I still get this
>> message when starting the service host:
>> WARNING: Port 9278 already in use. This instance of R-OSGi is running
>> on port 9279
>>
>
> Yes. This will/does happen when multiple instances of r-OSGi are run
> localhost, because r-OSGi assumes a default port. r-OSGi does allow
> specification of the default port via a system property (i.e. see this page
> for some info about this [2] ). There is also an enhancement request to
> allow container creators to specify the port for r-OSGi to listen on [3].
>
>> So I thought I would use a different protocol. I tried
>> ecf.generic.client and ecf.generic.server. But when I start the host
>> I get an exception
>>
>> ...Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Port value out of range:
>> -1
>> at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:180)
>> at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:141)
>> at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.comm.tcp.Server.<init>(Server.java:39)
>> at
>> org.eclipse.ecf.provider.generic.TCPServerSOContainerGroup.putOnTheAir(TCPServerSOContainerGroup.java:65)
>> ...
>>
>
> This error is because the ecf generic provider needs to be told what it's
> URI/ID is upon construction (it doesn't have a default). This is done with
> a line like:
>
> IContainer container =
> containerFactory.createContainer("ecf.generic.server","ecftcp://localhost:3282/server");
> <- note the protocol,host,port,path
>
> I've opened a new bug [4] to enhance the generic provider to allow a default
> URI (like above) to be set automatically. In the mean time, you will need
> to specify the ID yourself (e.g. as above).
>
>
>> Bonus question:
>> It seems that the ECF update site(s) have been down the last few days?
>>
>
> We are now making ECF daily builds (for ECF 3.1) available as p2 repos
> [5]...and you should be able to get the daily builds (for 3.1 stream) from
> those repos. If you are having any trouble with getting/installing from the
> given location, please do let us know.
>
>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>
> No problem. Please do let us all know what further needs you have WRT your
> project and we will do what we can to help.
>
> Scott
>
>
>> David Donohue
>>
>
> [1] http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/sessions?id=878
> [2]
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Getting_Started_with_ECF%27s_RFC119_Implementation
> [3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=267521
> [4] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290291
> [5] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ecf-dev/msg02913.html
>
>
>
