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Re: [rt-pmc] FW: FW: RT whitepaper check in
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Hi Ian,
Here are some comments about this white paper.
WRT ECF specifically...first, in the SOA section, you say this about ECF:
"In addition to the Swordfish project, the Eclipse Communications
Framework (ECF) contains
libraries that provide asynchronous point-to-point and
publish-and-subscribe messaging.
Along with the Jetty web server, ECF can be used to create light-weight
SOA or RESTful
end-points and consumers when a more comprehensive SOA framework would
be overkill.
[tk: is this true about ECF?]"
1) The parenthetical remark at the end about ECF is true...i.e. ECF can
indeed be used to create light-weight endpoints...BUT I think it's not a
good characterization of either ECF or Swordfish to present ECF as
somehow a 'smaller/less comprehensive soa framework than Swordfish'. In
general, I would prefer that the presentation of ECF be given without
any reference to Swordfish, as it not either a part of nor a subset of
Swordfish. ECF is a modular set of frameworks to support inter-process
communication...and it provides a number of options for doing so...e.g.
APIs for building RESTful remote services, APIs for discovering and
accessing remote services, APIs for building services based upon
asynchronous messaging patterns, and other remote services. If you or
others want additional prose/detail or explanation for this let me know
and I will provide it. Also...given the use-case-driven nature of
things, ECF can point to a number of use cases...if these are desired
(e.g. the recent EclipseRT in Austin or others that I can point to).
2) I also wish to say about 'Enterprise Applications': although ECF is
indeed smaller/simpler/lighter-weight than most 'enterprise frameworks',
we have been/are already implementing the OSGi R4.2 standards that have
come out of the Enterprise Experts (EE) group (i.e. what was
RFC119/distributd OSGi and is now called 'remote services' in the OSGI
4.2 final spec). So ECF's work on the OSGI 4.2 standards is very
relevant to enterprise (at least according to the OSGi EE).
A couple more general comments about the document i.e. not specifically
about ECF:
3) I find it somewhat strange that under 'Web Applications' that
Equinox-on-the-web-server is not presented more obviously. Running
Equinox on the server (with or without RAP...or in fact with or without
any user interface), is something many people are already doing...in
commercial app servers, cloud computing, server-based products, as well
as internal enterprise applications, etc. There are many
servers/services that have little or no UI at all (or have very
different clients than PCs/web UIs...e.g. toast) that can/could/will
benefit from EclipseRT-on-web-servers...and for me this doesn't come
through clearly in this document.
4) Another point is that although Jetty is a fine web server, I think it
should be made clear that Equinox/OSGi can be used with or without Jetty
(e.g. http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/server/). The more general point
is that *all* of the projects/frameworks within the EclipseRT are
modular by their being based upon OSGi/Equinox...and are therefore
usable either together, separately, or perhaps in pieces (e.g. using
only REST support in ECF or just discovery, or only parts of p2).
Although this is discussed at in the existing document (i.e. the last
paragraph), I think the modular structure of the EclipseRT projects
should be emphasized up front (perhaps with a graphic?), as the
'take/use only what you need' aspect is very powerful, and, I believe,
potentially very attractive to application developers of all kinds (i.e.
web server/web apps, desktop applications, embedded system dev, etc).
Scott
Ian Skerrett wrote:
All,
Here is the first draft of a white paper to answer the question "What is EclipseRT". As previously discussed, we are take a use case approach to organizing the document.
Please let me know if you have any feedback by next Tuesday, Dec. 1.
Thanks
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Cote [mailto:cote@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:05 PM
To: ian.skerrett; jeff
Subject: Re: FW: RT whitepaper check in
Attached is an update, first draft. I'm also going to send a Google
Docs invite to it for you to in case you'd like to add comments,
corrections, etc.: hopefully that'll be easier than a Word doc or
whatever else.
A few editorial notes:
- I'm sure I've missed mention of projects in the different
categories, or even mis-characterized the ones I've mentioned - please
point me in the right direction in those cases.
- I've marked up some questions in square brackets with a "tk" (easily
searchable) prefix, like, "[tk: is this true?]" that I'd appreciate
input on.
- Once we settle on the main content, I'll write in a conclusion and
(if needed) change around the introduction/overview.
If this content is in the right direction, I'll expect the next steps
to be incorporating y'all's feedback and then producing a final draft.
I'll be off for US Thanksgiving the rest of this week, but will have
time to work on it next week.
Thanks! ;)
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Ian Skerrett <ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I apologize for the delayed response. I think this draft looks like you are going in the right direction.
Jeff let us know if you have any comments.
Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Cote [mailto:cote@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 2:30 PM
To: Ian Skerrett
Subject: RT whitepaper check in
I don't usually pass up such drafty work on a paper, but I wanted to
check in with the general direction I've been going with the RT paper.
I'm pretty sure the initial drafts of the first 3 scenarios match the
idea we were talking about, but I wanted to check.
This is "draft zero" version of the paper with some rough notes on the
embedded and platform space along with some thoughts of possible
general themes to run through the paper. Meaning, don't worry about
the exact wording (or cheesy placeholder images ;>) and all that: I'm
more trying to nail down the outline and content ideas.
I'll be trying to get to a real draft Monday and Tuesday next week, so
any high level input you have would be helpful. And, again, I'm mostly
looking to check in mid-draft here to make sure its going in the
direction y'all want ;)
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