View source for TM/Autodetect

Lead: Javier Montalvo-Orús (Symbian)<br>
Members: Symbian, Freescale, WR



===Autodetect through service discovery===
We want to 
* Autodetect boards on the local network or in a lab
* Autodetect services on a remote system
* Autodetect connection mechanisms to a board (connectors)
* Autodetect remote board registries (related to [[DSDP/TM/Shared Board Labs|Shared Board Labs]])
in order to simplify setup of remote system connections for a user.

To enable service discovery to RSE get the plugins from CVS ([http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.tm.core/discovery/?cvsroot=DSDP_Project /cvsroot/dsdp/org.eclipse.tm.core/discovery/]) or download the [http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/dsdp/tm/downloads/drops/N20061010-0100/TM-discovery-N20061010-0100.zip working 2006/10/10 nightly build]

It contains the following plugins:

* '''org.eclipse.tm.discovery.engine''': Engine for the service discovery process 
* '''org.eclipse.tm.discovery.protocol''': Contains the factory, interface and extension point ''org.eclipse.tm.discovery.engine.discoveryProtocol'' to define protocols 
* '''org.eclipse.tm.discovery.transport''': Contains the factory, interface and extension point ''org.eclipse.tm.discovery.engine.discoveryTransport'' to define transports 
* '''org.eclipse.tm.discovery.protocol.dnssd''': Implementation of the DNS - Service Discovery protocol 
* '''org.eclipse.tm.discovery.transport.udp''': Implementation of the UDP transport 
* '''org.eclipse.tm.discovery.view''': View to browse discovered services, independent of RSE and enabled to launch the wizard page to start a new service discovery process. 
* '''org.eclipse.tm.discovery.wizard''': Wizard pages for service discovery 
* '''org.eclipse.tm.discovery.model, org.eclipse.tm.discovery.mode.edit''': EMF model for Service Discovery (requires EMF 2.2.0) 
* '''org.eclipse.rse.discovery''': Link between RSE and the target management packages. Provides a customised wizard for the '''Discovery''' system type.

===Service discovery usage on RSE===

The default plugins contains the implementation of [http://www.dns-sd.org/ DNS-SD (Zeroconf/Bonjour)] over UDP, other implementations can be provided through extension points.
The multicast address for DNS-SD is 224.0.0.251, but a specific IP can be used if just querying one device.

The usage of service discovery can be seen on the [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=46936 service discovery recording]

To test and evaluate the service discovery functionality in RSE 2.0, follow the testing intructions in the [http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/TM_Manual_Test_Plan#Discovery manual test plan]

===Use cases for autodetect===
* New Connection - instead of having to type an IP address, get a list of available systems. Grouped by system type, connection type (serial vs. TCP/IP), LAN/WAN range etc.
* In the New Connection Wizard, when the remote system is already identified, get available services / subsystems pre-selected as detected on the remote system (or disabled if not available on the remote system).
* New Board Lab - instead of having to type an IP address, get a list of available board lab servers.

===Discussions===
* Bugzilla [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=140320 bug 140320]