[soa-iwg] ECF remote services

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi SOAers,

ECF has recently finished it's implementation of the OSGi 4.2 remote 
services spec (chapter 13 in the OSGi 4.2 compendium spec).  See [1] for 
an overview of some of the technology, and [2] for the bug tracking the 
work.  ECF now has a spec compliant, working, high quality, 
multi-provider, community debugged, deployed, being consumed by multiple 
consumers implementation of this SOA OSGi standard [3].

Proposal to this working group

I propose that this implementation be included in the SOA runtime 
package for Helios. 

This would enable the SOA package consumers/community to very easily 
create standards-compliant remote service hosts and clients.  Further, 
ECF's provider architecture (described briefly in [1]) allows arbitrary 
existing/new implementations for discovery and/or distribution to be 
used by consumers, providing them maximum choice, openness, and 
interoperability.  As well, because of the multi-provider structure of 
the standard itself, ECF's implementation can/will coexist peacefully 
with any other standards-compliant implementation.  The size of ECF's 
bundles/codebase is very small...with minimal dependencies.  The total 
code size addition would be < 1M bytes (depending somewhat upon which 
providers were to be included).

If there are other technical questions about the ECF implementation 
characteristics, feel free to ask them here or on bug [2].

Thanks,

Scott

[1] 
http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/2010/01/osgi-remote-services-from-ecf.html
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290446
[3] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ecf-dev/