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| <p class=bar>Eclipse introspection tools incubator proposal</p> |
| <p>The goal of Eclipse is to become a platform to produce flexible and dynamic applications. |
| In such a dynamic environment, it is often hard to know what is happening or |
| to explain why the system is behaving as it is. Over the history of Eclipse, |
| various teams have put together tools (e.g, Core tools, Sleak, ...). This proposed |
| incubatory is a recognition that some of the tools we have in place today (e.g., |
| Core Tools) are going neglected and that there are additional/new technologies |
| available |
| for monitoring, introspecting and managing running OSGi/Eclipse systems (e.g., |
| JMX, aspects, ...) |
| <p>This incubator carries the very modest |
| scope of providing extensible frameworks in support of people instrumenting |
| or outfitting Eclipse/OSGi systems such that they can be observed from the |
| outside. For example, we propose a simple JMX server infrastruture that runs |
| in an instance of OSGi. This framework allows users to contribute providers |
| which in turn expose managed objects (i.e., MBeans) for use/interaction from |
| local or remote clients. |
| <p>While the main focus of this incubator is on the underlying plumbing, we do |
| intend |
| to implement rudimentary Eclipse user interfaces to facilitate the use |
| of the monitoring tools. |
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| <p class="bar">Interested Parties</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Robert Connell (UNB)</li> |
| <li>DJ Houghton (IBM)</li> |
| <li>Simon Kaegi (Cognos)</li> |
| <li>Jeff McAffer (IBM)</li> |
| <li>Pascal Rapicault (IBM)</li> |
| <li>Thomas Watson (IBM)</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>Please direct comments or questions to <a |
| href="mailto:equinox-dev@eclipse.org">equinox-dev@eclipse.org</a>.</p> |
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