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

[Ande Dietisheim <dietisheim@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott


thanks for those enligthments :-) RFC119 sounds very interesting, indeed.
By chance I got a project where ECF Rest's a perfect match and I startet 
using it (CDO would have been a perfect match too, but those guys 
implement the server and didn't want to change to CDO though). No doubt, 
I'll report all bugs/enhancements I figure out!
I'd be very happy if my patches could get reviewed and committed/corrected:

DS for ResourceRepresentations:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=285294

Request body for POST:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=285256

That would allow me to get on with ECF without too many patches to care for.
Could you please give me some hints how to handle these patches? I need 
them in my project-SCM, wouldn't like to cut the link to the ECF-CVS (If 
I'm not mistaken, I cannot share projects in 2 SCM) either. Is including 
them in my target-platform only a good idea? What are your best 
practices here?

Thanks + Cheers
André

Scott Lewis wrote:
> 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
S