[ecf-dev] ECF Progress

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

Although I haven't been very visible recently, there has actually been 
quite a lot of work done on ECF.

For example, many of the projects hosted at our github site [1] have 
been moved to using Maven+Tycho to build.  These projects are also being 
built automatically upon checkin via travis via the free-for-OS-projects 
github -> travis integration.   I've also started using the github 
release mechanism to release directly from the github project...e.g. [2].

These projects have all had the Maven/Tycho changeover, and in most 
cases have had a significant upgrade functionally and dependencies:

Py4j-RemoteServicesProvider:   Java<->Python remote services 
distribution provider.

ROSGI-Websockets-Provider:   Allows websockets to be used for the ROSGi 
distribution provider transport

RaspberryPI:   Raspberry PI GPIO via OSGi Remote Services

ServiceRegistry:   A Java-only (no OSGi Bundle Layer) of the OSGi 
Service Registry based upon Apache Connect   Adds on ECF's remote 
services implementation for Java-only remote services.

OSGIRemoteServiceAdmin:   A new, more flexible implementation of the 
OSGi Topology Manage

kryo-serialization:  A distribution provider based upon Kryo 
serialization (a serialization library...alternative for java object 
serialization).

JGroups:   A distribution provider based upon JavaGroups (www.jgroups.org).

HazelcastProvider:   A distribution provider based upon Hazelcast 
(hazelcast.org)

XmlRpcProvider:  A distribution provider based upon XML-RPC

JaxRSProviders:  A distribution provider based upon Jersey 
implementation of the JaxRS spec

etcd-provider:   A discovery provider based upon the Google 
etcd-discovery protocol (used in Kubernetes)

Py4j-OSGi:   A bundlized version of the Py4j library

OSGIRemoteManagement:   A large number of APIs and implementations...all 
as separate bundles...for remotely managing an OSGi framework and/or 
existing frameworks (e.g. p2).   See here for more information [3]

Mqtt-Provider:  A distribution provider based upon MQTT (paho library)

JMS:  A distribution provider based upon Apache ActiveMQ implementation 
of the Java Messaging Service (JMS)

Scott










[1] https://github.com/ECF

[2] https://github.com/ECF/Py4j-RemoteServicesProvider/releases

[3] https://www.eclipse.org/ecf/NewAndNoteworthy.html