[equinox-dev] Eight OSGi Services checked in

[Jennifer Fogell <jfogell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like Santa is coming a little
early this year :-)

The following eight OSGi services have
been checked in and are now available on Eclipse CVS HEAD.  The services
are described below:

·        LogService:
provides a general-purpose message logger for the OSGi environment. (org,eclipse.equinox.log)
·        HttpService:
 provides an embedded HTTP server that is capable of serving HTML
and Java servlets. (org,eclipse.equinox.http)
·        Device
Access: provides automatic detection of attached and detached hardware
devices and can automatically download and start appropriate device drivers.
(org,eclipse.equinox.device)
·        Metatype:
 defines interfaces that allow bundle developers to describe attribute
types in a computer readable form using so-called metadata.  It allows
services to specify the type of information of data that they can use as
arguments. (org.eclipse.equinox.metatype)
·        User
Admin: provides support for users, groups, and limited authentication
functionality. (org,eclipse.equinox.useradmin)
·        Wire
Admin:  an administrative service that is used to control a wiring
topology in the OSGi Service Platform. It is intended to be used by user
interfaces or management programs that control the wiring of services in
an OSGi Service Platform. (org.eclipse.equinox.wireadmin)
·        Declarative
Services:  simplifies the task of authoring OSGi services by performing
the work of registering the service and handling service dependencies.
This minimizes the amount of code a programmer has to write; it also allows
service components to be loaded only when they are needed.  (org.eclipse.equinox.ds)
·        Event
Admin:  provides an inter-bundle communication mechanism. It is
based on a event publish and subscribe model, popular in many message-based
systems  (org.eclipse.equinox.event)

Also, a wrapper to the Eclipse Preferences
service has been checked in that provides support for the OSGi Preferences
Service (org.eclipse.equinox.preferences).  The OSGi Preferences Service
provides a persistent data store
for OSGi bundles. 

           Note,
the Wire Admin Service is not yet complete.  The rest of the services
pass all tests.  

Happy Bundle writing!

Santa's Little Helper,
Jennifer Fogell
 OSGi Extensions Lead
 IBM Device Software Development
 Ext 838-9246  T/L 678-9246