[ecf-dev] FYI

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

FYI, I've released a new ECF provider that enables OSGi services both 
implemented and consumed by Python code.   If interested see this blog 
posting:

http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/2017/07/ecf-3137-oxygen-maven-and-python-osgi.html

This work is based upon ECF's OSGi Remote Services/RSA:  it's 
implemented as just another distribution provider that's based upon Py4j 
and Google Protocol Buffers.

To state the semi-obvious:   This allows any OSGi service to be 
implemented or consumed via Python.   Because it's based upon OSGi 
remote services, all the goodies that we've come to expect and depend 
upon in OSGi environments (i.e. versioning, dynamics, injection/ds, 
discovery, security, etc) all come for free...but now arbitrary Python 
code/libs can be used as well.

Scott