[news.eclipse.technology.ecf] Re: REST for ECF: declarative services?

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ande,

Thanks for the nice words.

The REST-based work started by Holger for his summer of code project is 
indeed very nice, and I expect it to make it into ECF 3.1 with 
help/review/contributions from the community (like yours...thanks very 
much!)

We've started the IP review process for the third-party code pieces of 
the work (i.e. the json.org json parser)...and as soon as the GSOC 
project is over I will be looking to include in ECF 3.1 (Sept release). 
 Between now and then (Sept) I would *very* much appreciate all the 
review/improvement suggestions that people can/could make so that when 
it goes out it is as production-ready as possible.

Again thanks for the help...I think that in combination with the ECF 
remote services work, along with the RFC119 implementation work (built 
on remote services API so the REST providers will slip in underneath 
with no additional effort) this is a very exciting direction.

Scott

Ande Dietisheim wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I started using the REST Abstraction for ECF that was developed @ GSoC. 
> Quite promising so far! Keep up the great work!
> I use json-based mashalling and I noticed that I have to autostart 
> org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rest.resource.json in order to have a 
> corresponding resource reprasantation ready for ECF. I guess this is due 
> to the programmatic service registration that occurs in the bundle 
> activator. We'd get rid of that if we'd use declarative services. Am I 
> missing something? I'd be happy to contribute that!
>
> Cheers
> André