Updates for ECF 3.14.8
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<br>
<br> <font class="indexsub">an eclipse runtime project</font> <br>
<br> <font class="indextop style2">New and Noteworthy</font><br>
- 3.14.0 Release <br> <br>
+ 3.14.8 Release <br> <br>
<br> Return to <a href="downloads.php">ECF download page</a><br>
<br>
<br><a
- href="NewAndNoteworthy_3.13.0.html">New and Noteworthy for 3.13.0/Oxygen</a><br>
- <br>
- <br><a
- href="NewAndNoteworthy_3.12.1.html">New and Noteworthy for 3.12.1</a><br>
+ href="NewAndNoteworthy_3.14.7.html">New and Noteworthy for 3.14.7</a><br>
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<br></td>
<td width="31%">
@@ -45,10 +42,58 @@
<hr>
<table>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
+ <p align="left">
+ <b>New Distribution Provider using gRPC</b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>There is a new distribution provider available at ECF's
+ github repo <a href="https://github.com/ECF/grpc-RemoteServicesProvider">https://github.com/ECF/grpc-RemoteServicesProvider</a> that is based upon <a href="https://grpc.io/">gRPC</a>.
+ This provider, along with <a href="https://github.com/ECF/grpc-osgi-generator">another project for
+ generating OSGi service interfaces</a> from the protocol buffers (.proto) definition of the service makes it very easy to generate the java service interface classes, and then export them (and import them)
+ as <a href="https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.remoteservices.html">OSGi Remote Services</a>.
+ See also the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Distribution_Providers">ECF Distribution Providers</a> wiki page.</p>
+ <p></p>
+ <p></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
+ <p align="left">
+ <b>New Distribution and Discovery Provider using Hazelcast 4</a></b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>There is a new distribution provider available at ECF's
+ github repo <a href="https://github.com/ECF/HazelcastProvider">https://github.com/ECF/HazelcastProvider</a> that is based upon <a href="https://hazelcast.org/">Hazelcast 4</a>.
+ This provider makes it easy to export, discover, and import
+ as <a href="https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.remoteservices.html">OSGi Remote Services</a> using Hazelcast 4.
+ See also the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Distribution_Providers">ECF Distribution Providers</a> wiki page.</p>
+ <p></p>
+ <p></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
+ <p align="left">
+ <b>New Distribution and Discovery Provider using Apache Dubbo</a></b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>There is a new distribution provider available at ECF's
+ github repo <a href="https://github.com/ECF/DubboProvider">https://github.com/ECF/DubboProvider</a> that is based upon <a href="http://dubbo.apache.org/en-us/">Apache Dubbo</a>.
+ This provider makes it easy to export and import
+ as <a href="https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.remoteservices.html">OSGi Remote Services</a> using Apache Dubbo.
+ See also the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Distribution_Providers">ECF Distribution Providers</a> wiki page.</p> <p></p>
+ <p></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
<p align="left">
- <b>Support for OSGi Remote Services R7</b>
+ <b>Improved Support for R7 OSGi Remote Services and RSA</b>
</p>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="85%"><p>ECF provides implementations of the <a href="https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.remoteservices.html">Remote Services</a>
@@ -83,65 +128,6 @@
</td>
</tr>
- <tr>
- <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
- <p align="left">
- <b>OSGi Gogo Commands for RSA</b>
- </p>
- </td>
- <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>
- ECF Photon has added a set of console commands for exposing the use and management of remote services
- in server environments. For example,
- with these new commands it's
- possible to export or import a local OSGi service via ECF's implementation of the OSGi-standard RemoteServiceAdmin
- service. It's also possible to query/view the existing imported and exported services, as well as the
- ECF endpoint. </p>
- <p></p>
- <p></p>
- <p>
- See <a href="http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/2018/04/ecf-photon-adds-gogo-commands.html">ECF Photon adds Gogo
- Commands</a> for a list of the new commands, their expected/required arguments and example of their output.</p>
- </td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
- <p align="left">
- <b>Etcd Discovery Provider</b>
- </p>
- </td>
- <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>
- ECF has an extensible/pluggable approach for discovering remote services on a network.
- There are <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Discovery_Providers">several discovery providers</a> available
- including JSLP, Zeroconf, Zookeeper, and <a href="https://coreos.com/etcd/">Etcd</a>. ECF now has an
- <a href="https://github.com/ECF/etcd-provider">etcd discovery provider</a> that use an etcd cluster to publish
- and discover remote services.
- </td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
- <p align="left">
- <b>Python.Java Remote Service Distribution Provider</b>
- </p>
- </td>
- <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>
- ECF now has <a href="https://github.com/ECF/Py4j-RemoteServicesProvider">remote service distribution</a> provider that supports remote services between Java and Python runtimes.
- This provider allow OSGi R7 remote services (including async remote services) between Java/OSGi runtimes
- and Python runtimes. Services may be exported for consumption/usage by Python components, or exported from Python
- for consumption/usage by Java components.
- </p>
- <p></p>
- <p>There is a provider based upon call-by-reference (via Py4j) and a provider based upon call-by-value using
- Google's protocol buffers for efficient serialization/deserialization</p>
- <p></p>
- <p>
- Additionally, the <a href="http://ipopo.readthedocs.io/en/0.7.1/">Python Ipopo project</a> will be soon (0.8.0) introducing
- an implementation of the OSGi RSA (Remote Service Admin) capabilities.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
-
</table>
</body>
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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<html>
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+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+<title>ECF New and Noteworthy</title>
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+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="69%" class="bannertext">
+ <img src="https://wiki.eclipse.org/images/b/b8/Logo128x37.png" alt="ECF Logo"/>
+ <font class="indextop style">Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF)</font>
+
+ <br>
+ <br> <font class="indexsub">an eclipse runtime project</font> <br>
+ <br> <font class="indextop style2">New and Noteworthy</font><br>
+ 3.14.0 Release <br> <br>
+ <br> Return to <a href="downloads.php">ECF download page</a><br>
+ <br>
+
+ <br><a
+ href="NewAndNoteworthy_3.13.0.html">New and Noteworthy for 3.13.0/Oxygen</a><br>
+ <br>
+ <br><a
+ href="NewAndNoteworthy_3.12.1.html">New and Noteworthy for 3.12.1</a><br>
+ <br>
+ <br></td>
+ <td width="31%">
+ <div align="center">
+ <img src="images/Idea.jpg" width="120" height="86" hspace="50"
+ align="middle" alt="Idea Icon">
+ </div>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+
+ <hr>
+
+ <table>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
+ <p align="left">
+ <b>Support for OSGi Remote Services R7</b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>ECF provides implementations of the <a href="https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.remoteservices.html">Remote Services</a>
+ and <a href="https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.remoteserviceadmin.html">Remote Service Admin OSGi specifications</a>.
+ OSGi R7 includes some additions to the Remote Services specification, specifically focusing on
+ the use of <a href="https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.remoteservices.html#i1693415">remote service intents</a>.
+ ECF Photon fully supports the R7 specification, and implements the OSGi standard intents via
+ several of the <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Distribution_Providers">ECF distribution providers</a>.</p>
+ <p></p>
+ <p></p>
+ <p>
+ For more information about the use of service intents see
+ <a href="http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/2018/05/ecf-photon-supports-osgi-async-intent.html">ECF Photon supports OSGi Async Intent</a>
+ and <a href="http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/2018/04/ecf-photon-supports-osgi-r7.html">ECF Photon supports OSGi R7</a>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
+ <p align="left">
+ <b>Support for using Bndtools for Remote Services Development</b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p><a href="http://bndtools.org/">Bndtools</a> is a set of Eclipse plugins that
+ aid the development, testing, and deployment of OSGi bundles. ECF's Photon release has added workspace, project, and bndrun
+ templates to help the remote service developer define, implement, and test OSGi Remote Services. </p>
+ <p></p>
+ <p></p>
+ <p>
+ See <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Bndtools_Support_for_Remote_Services_Development">here</a> for
+ a short tutorial on how to use bndtools and the new templates.</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
+ <p align="left">
+ <b>OSGi Gogo Commands for RSA</b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>
+ ECF Photon has added a set of console commands for exposing the use and management of remote services
+ in server environments. For example,
+ with these new commands it's
+ possible to export or import a local OSGi service via ECF's implementation of the OSGi-standard RemoteServiceAdmin
+ service. It's also possible to query/view the existing imported and exported services, as well as the
+ ECF endpoint. </p>
+ <p></p>
+ <p></p>
+ <p>
+ See <a href="http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/2018/04/ecf-photon-adds-gogo-commands.html">ECF Photon adds Gogo
+ Commands</a> for a list of the new commands, their expected/required arguments and example of their output.</p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
+ <p align="left">
+ <b>Etcd Discovery Provider</b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>
+ ECF has an extensible/pluggable approach for discovering remote services on a network.
+ There are <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Discovery_Providers">several discovery providers</a> available
+ including JSLP, Zeroconf, Zookeeper, and <a href="https://coreos.com/etcd/">Etcd</a>. ECF now has an
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/etcd-provider">etcd discovery provider</a> that use an etcd cluster to publish
+ and discover remote services.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
+ <p align="left">
+ <b>Python.Java Remote Service Distribution Provider</b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>
+ ECF now has <a href="https://github.com/ECF/Py4j-RemoteServicesProvider">remote service distribution</a> provider that supports remote services between Java and Python runtimes.
+ This provider allow OSGi R7 remote services (including async remote services) between Java/OSGi runtimes
+ and Python runtimes. Services may be exported for consumption/usage by Python components, or exported from Python
+ for consumption/usage by Java components.
+ </p>
+ <p></p>
+ <p>There is a provider based upon call-by-reference (via Py4j) and a provider based upon call-by-value using
+ Google's protocol buffers for efficient serialization/deserialization</p>
+ <p></p>
+ <p>
+ Additionally, the <a href="http://ipopo.readthedocs.io/en/0.7.1/">Python Ipopo project</a> will be soon (0.8.0) introducing
+ an implementation of the OSGi RSA (Remote Service Admin) capabilities.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+</table>
+
+</body>
+</html>
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diff --git a/downloads.php b/downloads.php
index a24f3d9..8e13e2f 100644
--- a/downloads.php
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<div class="homeitem3col">
<h3><?= $pageTitle ?></h3>
<p><img border="0" src="../images/new.gif" width="31" height="14" alt="[new]"/>
- <b>ECF 3.14.7 Now Available (2/19/2020)</b>
+ <b>ECF 3.14.8 Now Available (6/15/2020)</b>
<p></p>
<p>
- ECF 3.14.7 requires <b>Eclipse Photon, 2018-06 or newer, or Apache Karaf 4.2+ with Java 8+</b>. See <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/">here to get
+ ECF 3.14.8 requires <b>Eclipse Photon, 2018-06 or newer, or Apache Karaf 4.2+ with Java 8+</b>. See <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/">here to get
appropriate version of Eclipse</a> and <a href="http://karaf.apache.org">here for the appropriate version of Karaf</a>. <br>
<br>See <a href="NewAndNoteworthy.html">New and Noteworthy</a> for details of the contents of this release.<br>
<br>See <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Communication_Framework_Project">ECF Wiki</a> and/or the <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/ecf-dev">ecf dev at eclipse.org mailing list</a> for further information about plans and ongoing project activities.
@@ -44,11 +44,11 @@
include 'getNugget.php';
- $html = getNugget("EcfInstallViaKaraf3.14.7.html",$html);
+ $html = getNugget("EcfInstallViaKaraf3.14.8.html",$html);
- $html = getNugget("EcfInstallViaUpdate3.14.7.html",$html);
+ $html = getNugget("EcfInstallViaUpdate3.14.8.html",$html);
- $html = getNugget("EcfInstallViaZip3.14.7.html",$html);
+ $html = getNugget("EcfInstallViaZip3.14.8.html",$html);
$html = getNugget("EcfDailies.html",$html);
diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
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+++ b/index.php
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
<div class="homeitem3col">
<h3>Next Release</h3>
<div style="margin:10px;">
- <img border="0" src="../images/new.gif" width="31" height="14" alt="[new]"/><b>ECF 3.14.7 was released on 2/19/2020.</b><br><br>
+ <img border="0" src="../images/new.gif" width="31" height="14" alt="[new]"/><b>ECF 3.14.8 was released on 6/15/2020.</b><br><br>
See also <a href="NewAndNoteworthy.html">ECF New and Noteworthy</a>
</div></div>
<h3>What's New</h3>
@@ -66,6 +66,16 @@
<img src="../images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" width="16" height="16" alt="[Adarrow]"/>
</td>
<td valign="top">
+ <b>Monday, June 15, 2020 - ECF 3.14.8 is available on eclipse.org.</b>
+ See <a href="downloads.php">here for download</a>. The ECF 3.14.8 release is a bug-fix release. See <a href="NewAndNoteworthy.html">ECF New and Noteworthy</a>
+ <p></p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="left" valign="top" height="12" width="23">
+ <img src="../images/Adarrow.gif" border="0" width="16" height="16" alt="[Adarrow]"/>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top">
<b>Wednesday, Feb 19, 2019 - ECF 3.14.7 is available on eclipse.org.</b>
See <a href="downloads.php">here for download</a>. The ECF 3.14.7 release is a bug-fix release. See <a href="NewAndNoteworthy.html">ECF New and Noteworthy</a>
<p></p>
diff --git a/nuggets/EcfInstallViaKaraf3.14.8.html b/nuggets/EcfInstallViaKaraf3.14.8.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/nuggets/EcfInstallViaKaraf3.14.8.html
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+ <h3><img border="0" src="../images/new.gif" width="31" height="14" alt="[new]"/>Install via Apache Karaf</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>
+ To install ECF's Remote Services SDK into <a href="http://karaf.apache.org">Apache Karaf</a>.
+ <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/EIG:Install_into_Apache_Karaf">See here for instructions</a>.
+</li>
+</ul>
diff --git a/nuggets/EcfInstallViaUpdate3.14.8.html b/nuggets/EcfInstallViaUpdate3.14.8.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+ <h3>Install via p2 repository</h3>
+ <p>
+ For a detailed step-by-step description of how to install OSGi Remote Services into Eclipse
+ see <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Installing_OSGi_Remote_Services#Install_into_Eclipse">Installing Into Eclipse</a>. For a
+ step-by-step description of how to add OSGi Remote Services into your <b>Target Platform</b> see
+ <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Installing_OSGi_Remote_Services">Add to Target Platform</a>.
+ <p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>In Eclipse, choose <b>Help -> Install New Software...</b></li>
+ <li>Click on the <b>Add</b> button on the right. </li>
+ <li>Type in a Name in the textbox. For example, type: <b>ECF 3.14.7</b>.</li>
+
+ <li>Paste the following URL into the Location field. <br><br>
+ <b>http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.14.8/site.p2</b><br><br></li>
+ <li> Click OK. </li>
+
+ <li>Select the first <b>two</b> check boxes for install into Eclipse..i.e.
+ <b>ECF Remote Services/Remote Service Admin SDK</b> and the <b>ECF SDK for Eclipse</b>.
+ To explain: The ECF repository has four top-level items for install: </li>
+ <ol>
+ <li><b>ECF Core Features</b></li>
+ <li><b>ECF Core Source Features</b></li>
+ <li><b>ECF Remote Services SDK</b></li>
+ <li><b>ECF SDK for Eclipse</b></li>
+ <li><b>Other ECF Features</b></li>
+ </ol>
+ <p>
+ <li>The first two (ECF Core Features and ECF Core Source Features) are already installed in Eclipse and so do
+ not have to be installed. If they are selected, then they will update the existing Core feature.</li>
+ <li>Select both of ECF Remote Services SDK and ECF SDK for Eclipse and then follow through the remaining dialogs to complete the installation.</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h3>Install via Maven</h3>
+ <p>
+ ECF Remote Services/RSA is now available via <a href="https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.eclipse.ecf">Maven Central</a>. The group id is <a href="https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cg%3A%22org.eclipse.ecf%22">org.eclipse.ecf</a>.
+ There are also now <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/EIG:Install_into_Apache_Karaf">Karaf Features</a> based upon Maven.
+ </p>
+ <h3>Installing with Bndtools</h3>
+ <p>
+ ECF provides a bndtools workspace template, along with a number of project and bndrun templates.
+ See <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Bndtools_Support_for_Remote_Services_Development">Bndtools
+ support for Remote Services Development</a> for instructions.
+ </p>
+
+
+
+
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+
+ <h3>Install via Zip</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>
+ The ECF SDK zip contains all ECF plugins from the Eclipse Foundation, as well as source code.
+ The zip is a p2 update site. When you unzip it, you will have a local p2 update site and can
+ then add an update site using the 'local'<br/><br/>
+ <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellpadding="" cellspacing="5">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <th bgcolor="#c0c0c0">File</th>
+ <th colspan="1" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"> Build Date </th>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/rt/ecf/3.14.8/org.eclipse.ecf.sdk_3.14.8.v20200611-2221.zip">
+ org.eclipse.ecf.sdk_3.14.8.v20200611-2221.zip</a> 21MB
+ </td>
+ <td align="center">6/15/2020</td>
+ </tr>
+
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
