[ecf-dev] Spring and ECF Remote Services

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

I wanted to let everyone know that we've received a very useful 
contribution from Angelo Zerr:  Integration between Spring DM and ECF 
Remote Services.  Essentially, what this allows people to do is to 
publish and use remote services using Spring's declarative structure.  
This provides another option for those that wish to create remote 
services...as now people can easily export (host) and consume (consumer) 
remote services with

1) Java code...by using OSGi BundleContext.registerService (host) and 
normal service lookup code (like ServiceTracker).  See [1] for examples 
and short tutorial
2) OSGi Declarative Services.  See [1] also for example code.
3) Using Spring.   See Angelo's new wiki page at [2] for a description 
of this work.

Further, this work can/will serve as an integration point between ECF 
and the new Virgo project proposal [3] and the Virgo newsgroup [4].

Thanks go to Angelo for his excellent contribution of both code and 
documentation.  I hope and expect it will be valuable to many ECF (and 
Spring) community members.

Scott

[1] 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Getting_Started_with_ECF%27s_OSGi_Remote_Services_Implementation
[2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Using_Spring_with_ECF_Remote_Services
[3] http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/virgo/
[4] http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=159&;