[news.eclipse.technology.ecomm] questions on the proposal

["Jeff McAffer" <jeff_mcaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This looks good.  Some questions/thoughts on the technical direction.  From 
the proposal...

2. Interoperability through Open, Layered, Replaceable Protocols
Q: Which protocols are you considering?

3. Flexible Security: Identity/Authentication, Encryption, and Authorization
T: This is very interesting.  In Equinox we have been trying to get security 
work going for a while but with relatively little success.  It seems a 
critical mass is forming.  We will be very interested in what you do in this 
space.

4. End-to-end System Scalability
Q: What does this cover?

5. Application Extensibility
Q: What does this cover?

6. Component Architecture Leveraging the OSGI Model
Q: Very interested here.  What parts of OSGi do you see as 
interesting/useful?

7. System Provisioning, Monitoring, and Manageability
T: OSGi has formed a Mobile Experts Group which is dealing with a number of 
these issues mostly for the embedded (phone, telematics, ...) environment. 
Looking at OMA etc.  I'm nto sure what they have made available publicly but 
you may want to watch that space.


Questions:
- The proposal includes "all ecomm-created code will be built to depend only 
upon pure Java Standard Edition (1.4+).".  This is cool as an ultimate upper 
bound but you realy should consider some lower bars as well.  For example, 
we are looking at moving to Foundation for the Eclipse RCP plugins.  This 
allows for smaller total download/disk footprint as well as running on 
devices such as handhelds and phones (see the eRCP project for a hint at 
that direction).

- Is there code available?  Milestone 1 is almost here and it calls for APIs 
and apps to be delivered.

Sorry for putting all these in one message.  I didn't want to flood the 
group with a mess of separate messages as I suspect others will have a 
similar set after reading the proposal.

Jeff