[ice-dev] Issue 261 - Core as R-OSGi

["Ramachandran K. Narayanan" <knarayanan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello ICE-Dev,

The remote OSGi effort is to complete issue 261 (https://github.com/eclipse/ice/issues/261). The changes I have made in Core.java look deceptively simple and I had followed a more up to date tutorial outline (https://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=EIG:Getting_Started_with_OSGi_Remote_Services&redirect=no) suggested by Scott Lewis from the ECF mailing list.

If anyone could provide feedback on my changes in Core.java, that would be helpful. As before, the changes are in:

https://github.com/knram06/ice/tree/remoteosgi2

Also, I have the following questions:

1) It looks like the Core is running as a Remote OSGi service now, but how to verify this? That is, to verify the Remote part, would I need to resolve issue 262 (https://github.com/eclipse/ice/issues/262) or is there a simpler test? I am able to see that the ICE UI starts up and all the Core tests pass.

2) In my current changes, I have hard coded the containerType to "ecf.r_osgi.peer" and the server port combination to "localhost:9280". Would this need to be specified from outside the source code instead, i.e. from configuration files?

3) What are the subgoals to complete for issue 261? That is, is it enough for the Core to just run as a Remote OSGi service?

Thanks,

Ram

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Ramachandran K. Narayanan

Software Engineer

RNET Technologies Inc.

240 W.Elmwood Drive, Suite 2010

Dayton, OH 45459-4248