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+ <font class="indextop style">Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF)</font>
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+ <br> <font class="indexsub">an eclipse runtime project</font> <br>
+ <br> <font class="indextop style2">New and Noteworthy</font><br>
+ 3.12.1 Release <br> <br>
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+ href="NewAndNoteworthy_3.11.0.html">New and Noteworthy for 3.11.0/Mars</a><br>
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+ <b>Enhanced Remote Services/Remote Service Admin Tooling</b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>In <a
+ href="NewAndNoteworthy_3.10.0.html">ECF 3.10.0/Mars a Remote Services Perspective</a> was introduced. This perspective included
+ an Endpoint Discovery View allowing endpoints to be discovered (via network discovery and/or xml/EDEF-file-based discovery), examined,
+ and imported for use as a remote service.
+ <p>
+ <p>
+ In this release, there's a new Remote Service Admin (RSA) manager view. This view presents the Exported Services and Imported Endpoints
+ for the RSA running within Eclipse, allowing the programmer to <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Remote_Services_Admin">examine and manipulate exported services and imported endpoints</a>.
+ This tooling may be used to test and debug ECF Remote Services by monitoring and managing the remote services export, discovery, and import.
+ <p>
+ <p>
+ For example, here is a screenshot showing an endpoint that has been exported and published for
+ by a remote
+ host (e.g. by a <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/EIG:Install_Timeline_Example_into_Apache_Karaf">Karaf-based host</a>),
+ and then <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Discovery_Providers">discovered via the Zeroconf protocol</a> (presented
+ in the Endpoint Discovery View)<p>
+ <p>
+ <img src="images/screens/remoteserviceperspective.3.12.1.png">
+ </p>
+ The user can select this Discovered Endpoint, open the context menu, and select the 'Import Remote Service' menu.
+ The selected Endpoint will then be imported, and the Imported Endpoint will appear in the RSA Manager view.
+ <p>
+ <p>
+ <img src="images/screens/remoteserviceperspective.3.12.2.png">
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Note that the imported endpoint (the remote service proxy) is also presented in the OSGi Services View, and the properties
+ associated with the selected mported endpoint are presented in the properties view.<p>
+ <p>
+ The Imported Endpoints presented in the RSA Manager view can be Unimported (again via context menu). As well,
+ if remote service hosts are exported, they will appear under the Exported Services group in the RSA Manager, and
+ can also be unexported via the RSA Manager context menu.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
+ <p align="left">
+ <b>Remote Services Distribution Provider API</b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>Remote Services distribution providers are responsible for implementing the remote method call...i.e. the
+ serialization of parameters and return values, and the communications protocol used to communicate between the caller and the
+ remote service.
+ caller.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ ECF's Remote Services implementation allows the use of custom or alternative distribution providers. Allows ECF's
+ Remote Services implementation to be used with any desired serialization mechanism and any suitable communications protocol.
+ </p>
+ <p>For easy creation of distribution providers, we've added a new <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.11.0/javadoc/org/eclipse/ecf/remoteservice/provider/IRemoteServiceDistributionProvider.html">IRemoteServiceDistributionProvider</a>
+ interface so that a distribution provider may be registered for use via the <a href="http://www.osgi.org/wiki/uploads/Links/whiteboard.pdf">OSGi whiteboard pattern</a>.
+ <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.11.0/javadoc/org/eclipse/ecf/remoteservice/provider/package-frame.html">Here is the org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.provider</a> package.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For example, <a href="https://github.com/ECF/JaxRSProviders/blob/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.provider.jersey.client/src/org/eclipse/ecf/provider/jersey/client/JerseyClientDistributionProvider.java">here is a distribution
+ provider</a> implemented using <a href="http://jersey.java.net">Jersey Jax-RS</a> REST framework. A single instance of this class
+ is <a href="https://github.com/ECF/JaxRSProviders/blob/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.provider.jersey.server/OSGI-INF/distributionprovider.xml">registered via Declarative Services</a> and any remote services using the 'ecf.jaxrs.jersey.server' config type will
+ use Jersey as the distribution mechanism. See the <a href="https://github.com/ECF/JaxRSProviders/tree/master/examples">examples</a> in
+ the <a href="https://github.com/ECF/JaxRSProviders">JaxRSProviders</a> repo for complete examples of using this provider.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
+ <p align="left">
+ <b>New Distribution Providers and Distribution Provider documentation</b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>Using the remote services distribution provider API above, several new
+ distribution providers have been created:
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="https://github.com/ECF/JaxRSProviders">Jax-RS Providers (Jersey, CXF, Resteasy)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://github.com/ECF/HazelcastProvider">Hazelcast</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://github.com/ECF/Mqtt-Provider">MQTT</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ <p><a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Distribution_Providers">Detailed documentation of existing distribution providers</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top" align="left" width="15%">
+ <p align="left">
+ <b>Remote Management for OSGi Runtimes and Eclipse</b>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ <td valign="top" width="85%"><p>At the <a href="https://github.com/ECF">ECF Github site</a>, we've made new services...implemented as
+ OSGi remote service...that allow OSGi frameworks to be remotely monitored and managed. The <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement">OSGiRemoteManagement repository is here</a>. Each remote management service is defined and implemented separately,
+ so that relevant services can be installed and used in appropriate environments. For example, if <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/EIG:Install_into_Apache_Karaf">Karaf server environments</a> the
+ OSGi management services would be completely appropriate, and the Eclipse-specific services from the list below would not be appropriate.
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><b>Framework Management Services</b>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/tree/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.framework/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/framework/IFrameworkManager.java">Framework Manager</a> - Remotely access framework-level information such as framework properties, and get/set start levels.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/tree/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.framework/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/framework/IServiceManager.java">Service Manager</a> - Remotely access information about running services.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/tree/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.framework/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/framework/IBundleManager.java">Bundle Manager</a> - Remotely access information about bundles in framework, and remotely start/stop bundles.
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/tree/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.framework/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/framework/wiring/IWiringManager.java">Wiring Manager</a> - Remotely access information about bundle wiring.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/blob/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.application/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/application/IApplicationManager.java">Application Manager</a> - Remotely access information about OSGi applications. Also allows remotely starting/stopping applications.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/blob/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.scr/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/scr/ISCRManager.java">Service Component Runtime (SCR) Manager</a> - Remotely access meta-data about SCR/DS components. Also allows remotely enabling/disabling components.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/blob/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.rsa/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/rsa/IRemoteServiceAdminManager.java">Remote Service Admin Manager</a> - Remotely access meta-data about RSA such as RSA events, and remote service registrations and references. Also allows remotely exporting, importing, updating, and closing remote services.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>Eclipse-specific Management Services</b>
+ <ul>
+ <li><b>P2 Management Services</b>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/blob/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.p2.install/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/p2/install/IFeatureInstallManager.java">Feature Install Manager</a> - Remotely access feature meta-data and install, update, and install P2 feature groups.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/blob/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.p2.profile/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/p2/profile/IProfileManager.java">Profile Manager</a> - Remotely access meta-data about existing and active P2 profiles.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/blob/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.p2.repository/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/p2/repository/IRepositoryManager.java">Repository Manager</a> - Remotely access meta-data about repositories and their contents, and remotely add, refresh, and remove repositories.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>ECF Management Services</b>
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/blob/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.identity/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/identity/IIdentityFactoryManager.java">Identity Manager</a> - Remotely access meta-data about ECF Namespaces and IDs, and remotely create/add namespaces and IDs.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/blob/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.container/src/org/eclipse/ecf/mgmt/container/IContainerFactoryManager.java">Container Manager</a> - Remotely access meta-data about existing and active ECF Containers, and remotely create new containers.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="https://github.com/ECF/OSGIRemoteManagement/tree/master/bundles/org.eclipse.ecf.mgmt.sharedobject">Shared Object Manager</a> - Remotely access information about existing meta-data about shared object containers and shared objects, and remotely create and delete shared objects.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </p><p></p>
+ <p>
+ Each of the above services also has an async proxy interface, allowing the remote service to be accessed via a non-blocking<a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF/Asynchronous_Remote_Services">async proxy</a> create automatically for the
+ remote service by ECF's Remote Services implementation. Host implementations of each of these services are also available.
+ </p>
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