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Re: [ecf-dev] ECF in mobile

Christiano,

On 6/11/2012 8:51 AM, Cristiano Gavião wrote:
Hi guys,

I was reading this article: http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-indigo-highlights-ecf
and there is a nice video of one android app using ECF and Google Wave.

Google wave was discontinued, so what is the alternative in actual days for this kind of mobile applications ?

So...this effort (by Mustafa Isik and Sebastian Schmidt) used some of the ECF core classes...and, in fact whole plugins/jars...to support the Wave provider work [1]. These plugins/classes...and their runtime class dependencies...were added to the Android projects as library jars (I think)...and so were loaded/used at runtime without actually running a complete OSGi framework.

Running outside of OSGi is something that can be done with much...although not all...of ECF. I do this myself with other parts of ECF (e.g. the shared object API)...in order to make it simple to create Android-based clients that can easily and extensibly communicate/message with ECF servers/services (that happen to run under a full OSGi framework).

There is some work (as yet undone) to do the releng associated with using the relevant parts of ECF in a non-OSGi environment. For example, the creation of the non-bundle jars and the elimination of the unneeded classes from ECF, OSGi, and Equinox would be very desirable for this usage...along with creating a single distribution-ready Android library...rather than several jars. Doing these things would make it much easier for people to consume/use ECF in Android environments.

One other point...although Google wave was discontinued as an application, I suspect Google would like to continue to use (and have others use) the wave protocol...i.e. [2]. This was the work upon which [1] is based, so I don't think this is completely out of the technical picture (although the Wave application is indeed discontinued). But I'm not directly connected with the Wave protocol work these days...so I could be wrong on this.

Scott

[1] https://github.com/ECF/Wave
[2] http://www.waveprotocol.org/






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