[smarthome-dev] ECF Python OSGi Services

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Smarthomers,

Since ECF remote services/RSA is an OSGi specification impl the below 
announcement about a Python provider for OSGi Services is relevant to 
all OSGi-based frameworks, including Karaf and Smarthome.

One question:  Does there exist somewhere a target platform that 
includes a) the version and flavor of Karaf that Smarthome 2.1 is using; 
and b) the 2.1 version of Smarthome and it's non-Karaf dependencies.  
Thanks,

Scott

ECF recently released version 3.13.7 (Oxygen).

One highlight of the release relevant to this community is that the ECF 
RS SDK and dependencies are now available via Maven Central [1].  This 
is also reflected in our Karaf install [2]. As well, all our 
distribution providers...at both Eclipse.org and our github org [3] are 
now built with Maven.

As another highlight, recently there has been  work on the Jax-RS 
provider [4], upgrading the Jersey-based provider and allowing Jax-RS 
features and extensions via declarative services.

Finally, new Java<->Python remote service distribution providers are 
available [1].  These providers allow OSGi services to be implemented in 
Python and consumed in Java, and/or to be consumed in Python and 
implemented in Java.   The OSGi service dynamics, classloading, 
security, use of DS and/or other injection frameworks, versioning, etc 
is all available to services implemented in Python.  See here [5] for a 
short tutorial.

Scott

[1] 
http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/2017/07/ecf-3137-oxygen-maven-and-python-osgi.html 


[2] https://wiki.eclipse.org/EIG:Install_into_Apache_Karaf

[3] https://github.com/ECF https://wiki.eclipse.org/Distribution_Providers

[4] https://github.com/ECF/JaxRSProviders

[5] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tutorial:_Python_for_OSGi_Services