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Re: [ecf-dev] Java8 support
@Markus Would this be a nice one to start a Tycho build?
@Scott: I wonder if this can't be done by using a feature patch or fragments thereby overriding the existing classes instead of hard coding java8 in the names. I guess you made your contemplations. Can you share your reasons to do it like this?

Cheers,

Wim


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Folks,

As some of you probably know, I've been working on Java8 support in ECF's implementation of OSGi remote services (see description below and on blog post).  As of now, all of this work has been generalized and pushed to ECF's git repo...i.e. see the git links below.

Over the next few weeks, I'm going to write a tutorial on the use of CompletableFuture via ECF's asynchronous proxies...and put it in the wiki.

But...if we are going to build and deploy the java8 generic (and other) providers...along with the timeservice consumer and host examples...we will need to figure out how to build and deploy these 3 new bundles...since they depend upon java8...just to compile. Could Wim and/or Markus please comment on what's needed on our Jenkins instance to support this?   ...and any additions we need should make (e.g. new features?).

Thanks,

Scott

5) Use of Java8 for asynchronous remote services.   As many of you know, java8 has some new features that are very interesting/useful from a remote services perspective...see [5] for example.  I intend to get this work into Luna...as well as a new wiki-based tutorial demonstrating via our example async time service code described in the blog...which is now checked in, BTW [5a]).   This is really exciting, IMHO, because it's right at the intersection between remote services...which have a strong need for asynchronous/non-blocking semantics...the java8 async/concurrency/functional programming features...and ECF's ability to easily and efficiently support async proxies...through our provider architecture, underlying event-driven structure, and existing support for async proxies [5b].

[5] http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/2014/03/completablefuture-for-osgi-remote.html
[5a] http://git.eclipse.org/c/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.git/tree/providers/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.provider.remoteservice.java8
http://git.eclipse.org/c/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.git/tree/examples/bundles/com.mycorp.examples.timeservice.consumer.ds.async
[5b] https://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF/Asynchronous_Remote_Services
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