[ecf-dev] OSGI remote services spec progress

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

I've changed over the ECF spec implementation to be compliant with the 
service properties as specified in the OSGi 4.2 remote services spec 
(which I will occasionally refer to as 'chapter 13').  Previous to 
today, we were using the RFC119 specified service properties.  There is 
more to do to complete the spec work (e.g. handling of config types), 
but I would say that about 70% of the changeover work is now completed:  
total effort so far...about 8 hours (that's 0.05 man-month) :)

The cool thing (for me, anyway) is that since our implementation of the 
spec uses the abstract ECF discovery and remote services APIs, this 
changeover means *all* existing providers/transports become spec 
compliant....e.g. ECF generic, r-OSGi, xmpp, JMS, JavaGroups, other, 
etc.  All will now be compliant with the OSGi 4.2 remote services spec 
(with exactly no work for the provider implementations).    This is 
uniquely enabled by ECF's transport-independent provider 
architecture...and the fact that the ECF discovery and remote services 
APIs are abstract programmatic APIs, and not implementations of specific 
protocols.

I've posted/will post more detail to bug 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290446, but I wanted to 
let people know about the progress.

Scott