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| <font class="indextop style2">New and Noteworthy</font><br>3.1.0 Release</font> |
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| <B><a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/REST_abstraction_for_ECF">Representational State Transfer (REST) API</a></B> |
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| ECF 3.1 has support for creating REST-based remote services. ECF's existing <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Getting_Started_with_Using_the_ECF_Remote_Services_API">remote services API</a> has been extended to specifically |
| support the access of REST-based services (such as the Twitter API). See <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/REST_abstraction_for_ECF">ECF REST API wiki page</a> for more details and examples.</p> |
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| <B><a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Distributed_EventAdmin_Service">Distributed EventAdmin</a></B> |
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| <p>OSGi 4.1 defines an EventAdmin service for delivering events asynchronously or synchronously to an arbitrary set of listeners. ECF |
| has created a distributed version of the EventAdmin service, which uses publish and subscribe to deliver Events to remote listeners. The |
| This implementation uses the abstract <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF_API_Docs#Shared_Object_API">ECF shared object API</a>, which abstracts publish/subscribe |
| communication above the transport, so that that the use the Distributed EventAdmin service may be bound at runtime to a selected message bus. For example, ActiveMQ/JMS may |
| be used as the message bus, or ECF generic groups, or JavaGroups/reliable multicast, or other transports. See the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Distributed_EventAdmin_Service">Distributed EventAdmin wiki page</a> |
| for documentation and examples. |
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| <B><a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/TweetHub">TweetHub</a></B> |
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| Community-initiated work is underway on a Twitter client (called TweetHub) that uses ECF APIs, |
| as well as Eclipse RCP user interface technologies. For details of this work, and to participate, see <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/TweetHub">here</a>. |
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| Here is a screen shot from a recent version of the TweetHub work |
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| <B><a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/File-based_Discovery">File-based Discovery</a></B> |
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| As part of the ECF RFC119/Distributed OSGi implementation in ECF 3.0/Galileo, two discovery providers were previously released: one based upon |
| jSLP (Service Location Protocol aka RFC 2608) and the other based upon Apple's Bonjour/zeroconf protocol. File-based discovery |
| provides a way to publish and discover remote service endpoints without using a network protocol at all (or in addition to a network protocol), but |
| rather using an XML file that describes the endpoints of the remote services available. See the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/File-based_Discovery">File-based Discovery</a> |
| wiki page for documentation and examples. |
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