[news.eclipse.technology.eilf] News from EILF

["Georg Schmidt" <g.schmidt@xxxxxxx>]

Dear News Group Readers.

This newsletter is a bit late. We have had EclipseCon and a lot of holiday.

Never the less. there are a couple of news.

First of all I will start with the success stories in our development. The 
development team now has grown to twelve developers. One part of the 
developers is focusing on the creation of concepts, while the others are 
already preparing OSGi bundles for core components.

That way we have already created a bunch of 89 OSGi bundles... Cheer....

As long as we did not have the Eclipse infrastructure concepts could be seen 
at: http://bugs.brox.de/confluence/display/ECS/Home

user: eilf-gast
password:jh08hh15ar

Feel free to add some comments.

The EclipseCon was great and we got the chance to present our project. Due 
to the large audience at the project presentation we got several interesting 
discussions. One example is the discussion with the Swordfish project team 
(Sopera). We discussed topics like how to discover services with our 
platform or how to build a next generation of information based services.

One small drawback was also on EclipseCon. We did not got that much feature 
requests. But this is due to the lack of Semantic Web related audience at 
EclipseCon.

But this will be one thing that our project could improve.

The German Evening was a great success. We met over two hundred people and 
it was just a great party. German sausage as well as pretzels and beer were 
delivered. You should have been there.

Prior to the EclipseCon we decided to organize our project below the Eclipse 
RT project (http://www.eclipse.org/rt/). Therefor our allignment to Equinox 
will also get teighter.

One good feedback that we got from the audience was our ugly project name. 
We are currently improving that issue... Feel free to participate. Comments 
could be added to our newsgroup: 
http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.technology.eilf

One of our next goals is to get a downloadable version live at the Eclipse 
systems. Further we are preparing for a creation review.

If you are interested in our project you can meet us at the ApacheCon in 
Amsterdam. You can meet Marcel Wyser (tech. guy) or Peter Sanner (no tech. 
guy) there.

That's all news now... I think we solved a good bunch of tasks (keeping the 
Easter holidays and EclipseCon in mind).

Cheers,

Georg