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| name = Eclipse Communication Framework
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| download = http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/downloads.php
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| website = http://www.eclipse.org/ecf
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| list = ecf-dev
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| newsgroup = eclipse.technology.ecf
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| product = ECF
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| irc = eclipse-ecf
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| viewvc = http://git.eclipse.org/c/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.git/
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| psf = None
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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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==Conference Calls==
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=Documentation (for consumers)=
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==OSGi Remote Services==
  
ECF has weekly conference calls to discuss current and future issues on our roadmap. Anyone is welcome to join us.
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===What's New===
*International: +1-416-840-9801*
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*Canada: 1-877-727-8553*
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*U.S.: 1-866-394-4146*
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*Germany: 0800 111 1193*
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*U.K.: 0800 358 3473*
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*France: 0800 94 0253*
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*Finland: 0800 114 485*
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*Sweden: 0200 125 713*
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*Participant passcode: 428 029 063#
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'''PLEASE NOTE''': [[Running TimeService examples on Java7]]
===Bucky / Hudson session on September 18, 2010, 0700 UTC/10:00am pacific time===
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[http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=09&day=18&hour=07&min=00&sec=0 September 18, 2010, 0700 UTC/10:00am pacific time]
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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.
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===Introductory Materials===
  
===Next Conference Call: Monday, November 29, 2010 - 1800 UTC/10:00am pacific===
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NEW 3.9.2: [[Tutorial: ECF Remote Services for Accessing Existing REST Services]]
  
[http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=11&day=29&hour=18&min=00&sec=0 November 29, 2010, 1800 UTC/10:00am pacific time]
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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 Conference Call 11.29.2010|11.29.2010 Call Agenda/Notes]]
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[[Tutorial:  Building your first OSGi Remote Service]]
  
*[[ECF Meeting Notes|Notes from Previous Meetings]]
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NEW 3.9: [[Tutorial:  Raspberry Pi GPIO with OSGi Services]]
  
[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=q0gpojsaatmup0uilkklpe409c%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar]
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NEW 3.9: [[Tutorial: OSGi Remote Services for Raspberry Pi GPIO]]
  
===Public and Private Chat Groups===
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NEW 3.9.1: [[ECF Remote Services for Raspberry Pi GPIO]]
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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NEW Luna: [[TutorialBuilding your first Asynchronous 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> (Runs completely on ECF software)'''
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==Project Planning==
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NEW Luna: [[Tutorial:  OSGi Remote Services for the Raspberry Pi]]
  
[http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=rt.ecf Current Project Plan]
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[[Getting Started with ECF's OSGi Remote Services Implementation]]
  
[[ECF 4.0 ToDo collection]]
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New Luna: [[OSGi Remote Services and ECF|ECF Remote Services Architecture]]
  
==Builds==
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===Download and Install===
  
ECF has nightly builds as well as continuous builds on checkin and release builds.  Our builder currently uses Hudson and Buckminster and is hosted at the ECF OSU OSL server.  See [https://build.ecf-project.org/hudson/ here for the Hudson dashboard and access to all builds].
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[http://www.eclipse.org/ecf Download and Install into Eclipse]
  
[[Building ECF Release 3.2]]
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[[EIG:Install into Apache Karaf|Apache Karaf Install of ECF RS SDK]]
  
*[[How to VNC to ecf2]]
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[[EIG:Install Timeline Example into Apache Karaf|Install and run TimeService Tutorial in Apache Karaf]]
  
==New Stuff==
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===More Advanced Usage of OSGi Remote Services===
  
===ECF Documentation Project===
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[[Asynchronous Proxies for Remote Services]]
  
[https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=329124 Documentation project enhancement request (bug 329124)]
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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]
  
[[ECF Documentation Priorities]]
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[[File-based Discovery | Static File-based Discovery of Remote Service Endpoints]]
  
====Books====
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[[Distributed EventAdmin Service]]
[[EUG:How to Contribute|How to Contribute]]
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[[EUG:Users Guide|Users Guide]]
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[[EIG:Integrators Guide|Integrators Guide]]
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===OSGi 4.2 Remote Services===
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[[Tracing Options for Remote Services]]
  
[[Asynchronous Proxies for Remote Services]]
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===Remote Service Admin===
  
[[Getting Started with ECF's OSGi Remote Services Implementation]]
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[[Remote Services Admin|OSGi Remote Service Admin (RSA) Management Agent]]
  
[[Using ECF Remote Services Bundles separate from the ECF SDK]]
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===Customization of ECF Remote Services (new Discovery and/or Distribution providers)===
  
[[Using Spring with ECF Remote Services]]
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[[Tutorial:  Creating a RESTful Remote Service Provider]]
  
[[OSGi 4.2 Remote Services and ECF]]
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[[iPopo Compatible Providers]]
  
[[Distributed EventAdmin Service]]
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[[REST_abstraction_for_ECF|REST-style Remote Services Providers]]
  
[[Customizing and Extending ECF Remote Services]]
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[[Comparison of Discovery and Distribution Providers | Technical Comparison of Discovery and Distribution Providers]]
  
[[Discovery and Distribution Listeners | Listeners for ECF's OSGi Remote Services Implementation]]
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[[EIG:Configuration_Properties | Distribution Provider Configuration Properties (ECF generic, r-OSGi, Restlet)]]
  
[[File-based Discovery | Static File-based Discovery of Remote Service Endpoints]]
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[[Zookeeper Based ECF Discovery]]
  
[[Discovery of Remote Services | Network Discovery of Remote Services]]
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[[Etcd-Based Discovery Provider]]
  
[[REST_abstraction_for_ECF|REST-style Remote Services Providers]]
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==[http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/ ECF Blog]==
  
[[SOAP-based Providers|SOAP-based Remote Services Providers]]
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==ECF Documentation Project==
  
[[Load Balancing Remote Services]]
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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]
  
[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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*[[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 ]
  
[[ECF Connection Creation and Management | ECF Container/Connection Creation and Management]]
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==Additional Documentation==
  
===Other Cool Stuff===
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*[[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]]
  
[https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=310580 DNS-SD based ECF wide area discovery provider (bug 310580)]
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==Recent Presentations==
  
[https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280347 Google Wave Provider work (bug 280347)]
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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]
  
[[TweetHub]]
 
  
[[Newsreader|NNTP Protocol/Newsreader]]
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=Development (for contributors & committers)=
  
[[Google_Summer_of_Code_2010 | Google Summer of Code ECF Projects for 2010]]
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==ECF Calls and Meetings==
  
[[Google Summer of Code ECF Projects for 2009]]
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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]
  
[[DocShare Plugin|Real-Time Shared Editing]]
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===Next Hangout (proposed):  ===
  
[[Extending Real-Time Shared Editing for Use with Other Editors]]
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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]]
  
[[RT Shared Editing - Next Steps]] ([http://www.hantsuki.org/screencasts/ecf-team.htm current progress], subset of relevant bugs are {{bug|237471}}, {{bug|238966}}, and {{bug|239048}})
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====Archive Notes====
  
[[Sharing Editor Selections]]
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*[[ECF Meeting Notes|Notes from Previous Meetings]]
  
[[ECF Filetransfer Support for NTLMv2 Proxies]]
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===IRC===
  
[[Comments on the Riena Project Goals and Relationship to ECF project]]
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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>
  
[[Remote_Eclipse_RCP_Management | Remote Eclipse RCP Management]]
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==Project Planning==
  
[[Storage/Retrieval of IDs, IContainers using Equinox Secure Preferences]]
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[[Planning for ECF 3.8 | Plan for ECF 3.8]]
  
[[Screen Captures over IM]]
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[[ECF 4.0 ToDos]]
  
==ECF Adopters==
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==Access to Source Code==
  
[[ECF/Adopters|ECF Adopters List (please add yourself if you are using ECF)]]
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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]
  
 
==Coding Conventions==
 
==Coding Conventions==
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source code formatter to use in Eclipse to easily enforce these conventions.
 
source code formatter to use in Eclipse to easily enforce these conventions.
  
==Eclipse Summit Europe 2010==
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==Builds==
Eclipse Summit Europe was a great success for ECF. A big room full of interested and nice people.
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For your convenience, here is the presentation.
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*[[media:ESE 2010 presentationv2.pdf|ESE 2010 presentation.pdf]]
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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].
  
And on Eclipse live:  
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Both Maven and p2 repositories are available from nightly builds [http://download.ecf-project.org/ here].
  
*[http://vimeo.com/14247502 Fun with remote services]
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==Appendix==
<br>
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==EclipseCon 2009==
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[[ECF/Adopters|ECF Adopters List (please add yourself if you are using ECF)]]
ECF was busy at EclipseCon 2009, giving a number of talks and tutorials. The photo shows Scott, Mustafa and Markus wrapping up the conference at the Hyatt Bar, which is adjacent to the Santa Clara Convention Center.
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For your convenience, here is a short overview of ECF activities at EclipseCon 2009:
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*[http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/sessions?id=429 Cola: Real-Time Shared Editing with ECF - Striding towards the Future, Multiple Edits at a Time]
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*[http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/sessions?id=633 Best Practices for Distributed OSGi Services]
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*[http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/sessions?id=618 Distributed OSGi - the ECF way]
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*[http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/sessions?id=772 ECF BoF]
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For those who couldn't make it, if the [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23eclipsecon busyness during the conference] is to serve as an indicator, you can expect a flurry of post-con blog posts and tweets to show up, giving you an idea of what EclipseCon 2009 was like.
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==Additional Documentation==
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*[[ECF API Docs]]
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*[http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.docs/api/ API javadocs]
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*[[ECF Servers|Servers]]
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*[[ECF Providers|Providers]]
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*[[Bot Framework]]
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==Current Projects==
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*[[TweetHub]]
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*[[IPC|Inter-Process Communication]]
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===Older Projects===
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*[[Multi-User Sudoku]]
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*[[Sharing objects over XMPP]]
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{{ECF}}
 
{{ECF}}
[[Category:Eclipse Communication Framework]]
 
[[Category:EclipseRT]]
 
[[Category:Draft Documentation]]
 

Revision as of 16:45, 6 March 2015

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Documentation (for consumers)

OSGi Remote Services

What's New

PLEASE NOTE: Running TimeService examples on Java7

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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