[equinox-dev] OSGi Remote Service Admin

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Greetings,

As planned, the ECF project is approaching completion of an ECF-based 
implementation of the remote service admin OSGi 4.2 specification [1].  
For those unfamiliar, the remote service admin spec is part of the OSGi 
enterprise spec.   As appropriate for our project scope, our intention 
is to focus only on implementing the remote service admin spec...i.e. we 
have no intention or plans for implementing other parts of the OSGi ee 
spec (e.g. blueprint, etc).

The remote service admin specification includes classes...and these 
classes are included in the 4.2 osgi.enterprise.jar.  How should ECF 
proceed WRT the IP clearance for these OSGi classes?  Are they included 
in some overarching Eclipse Foundation-OSGi relationship?  Are they 
included in the process that the runtime project has for getting new 
versions of (e.g.) the core framework spec classes?  If not, 
could/should they be?

We would obviously rather not have to through a distinct, ECF-specific 
IP process for including these OSGi classes in ECF...especially since we 
as a project do not currently have an active representative on the 
Enterprise experts group.  Also, duplicating work already done by the IP 
team is undesirable for obvious reasons.

So...how should we proceed WRT use of these OSGi EE classes for remote 
service admin?

Thanks,

Scott


[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=324215