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| 3.6.0 Release <br> <br> |
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| <b><a |
| href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=391677">Remote |
| services Generic provider that uses SSL transport</a></b> |
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| Earlier ECF general providers were based on raw TCP sockets. Thus |
| encrypted communication through the ECF generic provider for OSGI Remote Service |
| was not available. A new |
| provider was developed to support secure/encrypted communication |
| based upon SSL. See <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=391677">bug 391677</a><br> |
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| href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=337615">Rest |
| server-side support for Remote Services</a></b> |
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| In previous versions of ECF, Rest API mostly supported the creation of |
| OSGI Remote Service clients/consumers. This work on supports the creation and |
| use of remote services on OSGi-based servers. Major additions can be |
| found in org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.server bundle. Also some |
| changes were made to the <a |
| href="https://github.com/ECF/RestletProvider">Restlet provider</a> (available via <a href="http://github.com/ECF">ECF Github Repo</a>. |
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| href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=256975">ECF |
| RemoteServiceTracker</a></b> |
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| <p>ECF ServiceTrackers are used to discover registered services |
| and then consume them. This RemoteServiceTracker allows the |
| tracking of ECF RemoteService instances, which does not need |
| the OSGi service registry to function (as normal service trackers do). |
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| Contributions can be found in org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice project. |
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| <b><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=400164">API to allow customization of proxy creation</a></b> |
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| <p>Earlier remote services proxy creation is done by using<br> |
| AbstractRemoteService.createProxy/2<br> |
| In order to customize the proxy creation it was necessary to subclass AbstractRemoteService and override createProxy. But with new contributions |
| proxy creation can be dynamically customized using IRemoteServiceProxyCreator with an appropriate service ranking. |
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| <b><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=337449">New filetransfer provider based upon Apache Httpclient 4.1</a></b> |
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| <p>Active work on Apache Httpclient version 3.X has stopped, and Apache HttpComponents/Httpclient4 is now where active dev and bug fixing work is taking place. |
| ECF has created and deployed a new provider based upon Httpclient 4, that will allow p2/Equinox/Eclipse platform to benefit from the new Apache Httpclient 4 work, |
| including such desired features as full support for NTLM proxies, HTTP caching, improved proxy and credentials support, and active debugging. |
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