Asynchronous Remote Services with Java8's CompletableFuture

For some time, ECF's standards-compliant implementation of OSGi Remote Services has included support for Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Remote Services. With Java8's CompletableFuture this support is complete and much easier to use...especially when combined with Java8's Lambda's. See the the ECF Asynchronous Remote Services tutorial to show how non-blocking remote services can easily be created and used with ECF's standard implementation of OSGi Remote Services. Here is further documentation documentation on the use of Asynchronous Remote Services.

ECF Remote Service SDK for Apache Karaf

Apache Karaf is an OSGi runtime that supports the easy install of frameworks such as ECF's OSGi Remote Services/RSA implementation. With the ECF 3.8.0 release, we are now creating Karaf features, to allow easy install of the ECF RS/RSA bundles into a Karaf runtime. See here for instructions on installing ECF RS SDK into Apacke Karaf.

Improvements to OSGi Remote Services Discovery

ECF's implementation of RSA discovery has been made easier to use through the introduction of the use of whiteboard-pattern registration of IServiceInfo instances. For details please see bug 424060.

Metadata to support use of BndTools 2.0+

To make our OSGi RS/RSA framework more accessible to more tooling, ECF is creating metadata to allow use with BndTools 2.0

New Tutorials and Examples for OSGi Remote Services

We've added and enhanced several tutorials and created additional examples

• Introductory Tutorial: Building First OSGi Remote Service
• Tutorial: Building First Asynchronous OSGi Remote Service
• Tutorial: Creating a RESTful Remote Service Provider

MQTT Protocol for Remote Services distribution

We now have a remote services provider that's based upon the MQTT protocol. For information on how to install, and use this new provider please see bug 420896

Better Support for Provisioning into Non-Eclipse Runtimes

ECF has done a lot of work to refactor our features so that they are now more easily usable in all OSGi runtimes. This includes Eclipse, and the work makes the installation of ECF features into Eclipse both easier and more flexible, but it also makes the use of ECF features (e.g. OSGi Remote Service Admin) into non-Eclipse runtimes much easier and more flexible as well. For details about what was done, see bug 409787. We now have a remote services provider that's based upon the MQTT protocol (Internet of things...Iot). For information on how to install, and use this new provider please see bug 420896