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| 3.14.8 Release <br> <br> |
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| <b>New Distribution Provider using gRPC</b> |
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| <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> |
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| <b>New Distribution and Discovery Provider using Hazelcast 4</a></b> |
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| <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> |
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| <b>New Distribution and Discovery Provider using Apache Dubbo</a></b> |
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| <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> |
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| <b>Improved Support for R7 OSGi Remote Services and RSA</b> |
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| <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> |
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| 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> |
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| <b>Support for using Bndtools for Remote Services Development</b> |
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| <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> |
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| 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> |
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