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[http://www.eclipse.org/ecf ECF Project Home Page]<br>
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[http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/downloads.php ECF downloads]<br/>
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[http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/dev_resources.php ECF Developer Resources (CVS access, newsgroup/mailing list access, etc.)]<br/>
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[http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ecf-dev/maillist.html Mailing list archive for ecf-dev@eclipse.org]
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==ECF at Eclipse Summit Europe 2006==
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=Documentation (for consumers)=
[[Image:Eclipsesummiteurope2006.JPG|right|thumb|300px|From left to right: Roland Fru, Scott Lewis, and Mustafa Isik]]
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==OSGi Remote Services==
Check out these guys.  They look happy to be working on Eclipse and ECF, no?
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Also see the [http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2006/index.php?page=detail/&id=35 ECF presentation] given at [http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2006 Eclipse Summit Europe 2006].
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===What's New===
  
==ECF Team Meetings==
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There was a talk about the use of Remote Services from Neil Bartlett at EclipseCon 2014.  It was called [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp2sVAmgrSA Scaling and Orchestrating Microservices with OSGi].  About midway through the talk he discusses the use of Remote Services.  Sadly, he doesn't use ECF's open implementation of RSA, but he does make some interesting points about the utility of using Remote Services for scaling microservices across processes.
===Conference Calls===
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===Introductory Materials===
ECF has bi-weekly conference calls to discuss current and future issues on our roadmap. Anyone is welcome to join us.
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*International: 613-287-8000
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*Toll free: 866-362-7064
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*Participant passcode: 892048#
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===Notes from Past Meetings===
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NEW 3.9.2: [[Tutorial:  ECF Remote Services for Accessing Existing REST Services]]
*[[ECF Conference Call 4.9.2007|Agenda and Notes from Last Meeting (April 9th, 2007)]]
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*[[ECF Meeting Notes|Notes from Older Meetings]]
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===Public and Private Chat Groups===
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[http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/presentations/ese2014/How%20to%20Cook%20an%20Egg%20with%20the%20Eclipse%20Communication%20Framework.pdf NEW 3.9.1: How to Cook an Egg with ECF (Wim Jongman presentation at EclipseCon 2014)]
ECF also has ongoing public and private chat groups. Please join us!
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*IRC (public)<b>irc.freenode.net</b>  channel: <b>#eclipse-ecf</b>  ECF URL <b>[irc://irc.freenode.net/#eclipse-ecf irc://<user>@irc.freenode.net/#eclipse-ecf]</b><br>
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[[TutorialBuilding your first OSGi Remote Service]]
*XMPP (private): <b><user>@ecf.eclipse.org</b> multi-user chat: <b>ecf</b><br>
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*ECF Generic (public):  <b>ecftcp://ecf.eclipse.org:3282/server</b>
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==Current Projects==
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NEW 3.9: [[Tutorial:  Raspberry Pi GPIO with OSGi Services]]
===API===
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*[[ECF API Docs|ECF API Docs]]
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NEW 3.9: [[Tutorial:  OSGi Remote Services for Raspberry Pi GPIO]]
*[[ECF Connect and Configuration Extensions|ECF Provider-Specific Connect and Configuration Wizard Creation]]
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*[[ECF API Refactoring|ECF API Refactoring Efforts]]
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NEW 3.9.1: [[ECF Remote Services for Raspberry Pi GPIO]]
*[[ECF Application Refactoring|ECF Application Refactoring Efforts]]
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*[[Bot Framework]]
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NEW Luna: [[Tutorial:  Building your first Asynchronous OSGi Remote Service]]
*[[ECF Providers|Providers]]
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NEW Luna: [[Tutorial:  OSGi Remote Services for the Raspberry Pi]]
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[[Getting Started with ECF's OSGi Remote Services Implementation]]
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New Luna: [[OSGi Remote Services and ECF|ECF Remote Services Architecture]]
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===Download and Install===
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[http://www.eclipse.org/ecf Download and Install into Eclipse]
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[[EIG:Install into Apache Karaf|Apache Karaf Install of ECF RS SDK]]
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[[EIG:Install Timeline Example into Apache Karaf|Install and run TimeService Tutorial in Apache Karaf]]
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===More Advanced Usage of OSGi Remote Services===
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[[Asynchronous Proxies for Remote Services]]
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[http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/2010/02/osgi-remote-services-and-sync-vs-async.html OSGi Remote Services and Sync vs. Async Remote Procedure Call]
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[[File-based Discovery | Static File-based Discovery of Remote Service Endpoints]]
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[[Distributed EventAdmin Service]]
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[[Tracing Options for Remote Services]]
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===Remote Service Admin===
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[[Remote Services Admin|OSGi Remote Service Admin (RSA) Management Agent]]
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===Customization of ECF Remote Services (new Discovery and/or Distribution providers)===
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[[Tutorial:  Creating a RESTful Remote Service Provider]]
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[[iPopo Compatible Providers]]
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[[REST_abstraction_for_ECF|REST-style Remote Services Providers]]
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[[Comparison of Discovery and Distribution Providers | Technical Comparison of Discovery and Distribution Providers]]
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[[EIG:Configuration_Properties | Distribution Provider Configuration Properties (ECF generic, r-OSGi, Restlet)]]
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[[Zookeeper Based ECF Discovery]]
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[[Etcd-Based Discovery Provider]]
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==[http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/ ECF Blog]==
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==ECF Documentation Project==
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We know we have a problem with insufficient and disorganized documentation.  We are working on it.  We would appreciate any help that anyone is willing to provide, so if you would like to contribute to ECF by editing and/or creating documentation, please get a hold of us via the ]https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/ecf-dev ecf-dev mailing list]
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*[[Remote Service SDK - Annotated listing of bundles included in SDK]]
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* [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=329124 Documentation project enhancement request (bug 329124)]
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* [[EUG:Users Guide|Users Guide (work in progress)]]
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* [[EIG:Integrators Guide|Integrators Guide (work in progress)]]
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* [[EUG:How to Contribute|How to Contribute]]
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* [[ECF Documentation Priorities]]
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* [http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.8.1/javadoc/index.html ECF API Javadoc ]
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==Additional Documentation==
  
===Components===
 
*[[Skype Provider|Skype Provider]]
 
*[[VOIP|VOIP/Asterisk/Jingle/Call API]]
 
*[[ECF SOC Projects|Google Summer of Code Projects]]
 
*[[ECF for eRCP|ECF for eRCP]]
 
*[[Shared Editing]]
 
*[[ECF Remote Services|Remote Services]]
 
*[[ECF Bulletin Board Providers|Bulletin Board Providers]]
 
*[[JXTA provider for ECF]]
 
 
*[[ECF Servers|Servers]]
 
*[[ECF Servers|Servers]]
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*[[ECF Providers|Providers]]
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*[[ECF Connection Creation and Management | ECF Container/Connection Creation and Management]]
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*[[DocShare Plugin|Real-Time Shared Editing]]
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*[[Extending Real-Time Shared Editing for Use with Other Editors]]
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==Recent Presentations==
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*[http://www.lemmster.de/publications/Discover_Remote_Services_-_Democamp_HH_2013_-_Markus_Alexander_Kuppe.pdf Democamp presentation by Markus Kuppe]
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*[http://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2013/discover-remote-osgi-services Discover Remote OSGi Services]
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*[http://vimeo.com/14247502 Fun with remote services]
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=Development (for contributors & committers)=
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==ECF Calls and Meetings==
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ECF has open bi-weekly Google Hangouts to discuss current and future issues on our roadmap.  '''Anyone interested is welcome to join us (Consumers too)'''.  We typically share the Hangout URL on the [https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/ecf-dev ecf-dev mailing list] shortly before the hangout begins...so please [https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/ecf-dev  join the ecf-dev mailing list]
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===Next Hangout (proposed):  ===
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===Notes from Recent Meetings===
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*[[ECF_Conference_Call_01.07.2013|1.07.2014 Call Agenda and Notes]]
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====Archive Notes====
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*[[ECF Meeting Notes|Notes from Previous Meetings]]
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===IRC===
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*IRC (public):  <b>irc.freenode.net</b>  channel: <b>#eclipse-ecf</b>  ECF URL <b>[irc://irc.freenode.net/#eclipse-ecf irc://<user>@irc.freenode.net/#eclipse-ecf]</b><br>
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==Project Planning==
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[[Planning for ECF 3.8 | Plan for ECF 3.8]]
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[[ECF 4.0 ToDos]]
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==Access to Source Code==
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[http://git.eclipse.org/c/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.git source code repository]
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[http://git.eclipse.org/c/ecf/ecf.git/ web documentation repository]
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==Coding Conventions==
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ECF has decided to use the [http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/documents/coding.php Equinox Coding Conventions]. Also [http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/documents/coding.php on this page] are links to java
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source code formatter to use in Eclipse to easily enforce these conventions.
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==Builds==
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ECF has nightly and continuous builds with automated integration testing.  We use Jenkins and Buckminster and is hosted at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab.  See [https://build.ecf-project.org/jenkins/ here].
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Both Maven and p2 repositories are available from nightly builds [http://download.ecf-project.org/ here].
  
===Ganymede===
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==Appendix==
*[[ECF Ganymede Roadmap|Ganymede Roadmap]]
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===Others===
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[[ECF/Adopters|ECF Adopters List (please add yourself if you are using ECF)]]
*[[ECF Europa Ramp-down Policy]]
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*[[ECF Documentation|Documentation: Intro Docs/Examples, Tutorials, Screencasts]]
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*[[Corona Project]]
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*[[DSDP Project]]
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*[[Enhanced Publish and Subscribe Support]]
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*[[Application Sharing|Application Sharing]]
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*[[Multi-User Sudoku]]
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*[[OLSR provider for ECF]]
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*[[Automated ECF Build]]
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[[Category:Eclipse Communication Framework]]
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{{ECF}}
[[Category:Eclipse Technology Project]]
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Revision as of 02:00, 29 December 2014

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Documentation (for consumers)

OSGi Remote Services

What's New

There was a talk about the use of Remote Services from Neil Bartlett at EclipseCon 2014. It was called Scaling and Orchestrating Microservices with OSGi. About midway through the talk he discusses the use of Remote Services. Sadly, he doesn't use ECF's open implementation of RSA, but he does make some interesting points about the utility of using Remote Services for scaling microservices across processes.

Introductory Materials

NEW 3.9.2: Tutorial: ECF Remote Services for Accessing Existing REST Services

NEW 3.9.1: How to Cook an Egg with ECF (Wim Jongman presentation at EclipseCon 2014)

Tutorial: Building your first OSGi Remote Service

NEW 3.9: Tutorial: Raspberry Pi GPIO with OSGi Services

NEW 3.9: Tutorial: OSGi Remote Services for Raspberry Pi GPIO

NEW 3.9.1: ECF Remote Services for Raspberry Pi GPIO

NEW Luna: Tutorial: Building your first Asynchronous OSGi Remote Service

NEW Luna: Tutorial: OSGi Remote Services for the Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with ECF's OSGi Remote Services Implementation

New Luna: ECF Remote Services Architecture

Download and Install

Download and Install into Eclipse

Apache Karaf Install of ECF RS SDK

Install and run TimeService Tutorial in Apache Karaf

More Advanced Usage of OSGi Remote Services

Asynchronous Proxies for Remote Services

OSGi Remote Services and Sync vs. Async Remote Procedure Call

Static File-based Discovery of Remote Service Endpoints

Distributed EventAdmin Service

Tracing Options for Remote Services

Remote Service Admin

OSGi Remote Service Admin (RSA) Management Agent

Customization of ECF Remote Services (new Discovery and/or Distribution providers)

Tutorial: Creating a RESTful Remote Service Provider

iPopo Compatible Providers

REST-style Remote Services Providers

Technical Comparison of Discovery and Distribution Providers

Distribution Provider Configuration Properties (ECF generic, r-OSGi, Restlet)

Zookeeper Based ECF Discovery

Etcd-Based Discovery Provider

ECF Blog

ECF Documentation Project

We know we have a problem with insufficient and disorganized documentation. We are working on it. We would appreciate any help that anyone is willing to provide, so if you would like to contribute to ECF by editing and/or creating documentation, please get a hold of us via the ]https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/ecf-dev ecf-dev mailing list]

Additional Documentation

Recent Presentations


Development (for contributors & committers)

ECF Calls and Meetings

ECF has open bi-weekly Google Hangouts to discuss current and future issues on our roadmap. Anyone interested is welcome to join us (Consumers too). We typically share the Hangout URL on the ecf-dev mailing list shortly before the hangout begins...so please join the ecf-dev mailing list

Next Hangout (proposed):

Notes from Recent Meetings

Archive Notes

IRC

Project Planning

Plan for ECF 3.8

ECF 4.0 ToDos

Access to Source Code

source code repository

web documentation repository

Coding Conventions

ECF has decided to use the Equinox Coding Conventions. Also on this page are links to java source code formatter to use in Eclipse to easily enforce these conventions.

Builds

ECF has nightly and continuous builds with automated integration testing. We use Jenkins and Buckminster and is hosted at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. See here.

Both Maven and p2 repositories are available from nightly builds here.

Appendix

ECF Adopters List (please add yourself if you are using ECF)

Eclipse Communication Framework
API
API DocumentationJavadocProviders
Development
Development GuidelinesIntegrators Guide

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