Hi, I've been looking in to Newton... Some one put a lot of work into it..
________________________________ From: Marcel Offermans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 6/28/2008 5:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Distributed OSGi/Network Service Discovery Hello Dieter, On Jun 28, 2008, at 2:09 , Dieter Wimberger wrote: > I have been reading a bit about the distributed OSGi efforts, and I > wondered about two things: > > 1) Isn't network service discovery an essential element? > (With network service discovery, I am talking about what's done > through protocols like SLP, mDNS etc.) It is. > 2) Is there any effort to standardize such service discovery > services into an OSGi service specification? > i.e. property based network service discovery service independent of > the actual protocol that is used? Such an effort is indeed underway for quite some time now. > I personally think it does make sense to have such an abstraction, > because it could shield bundles from protocol details and the actual > implementation that is being used at a specific site. Me too, doing distributed OSGi is not rocket science in the sense that there are not that many different ways to do it, but standardization helps a lot to prevent slightly incompatible solutions here. If you want to learn a bit more about it, check out the following links: - http://blogs.iona.com/newcomer/archives/000569.html - http://www.osgi.org/wiki/uploads/CommunityEvent2008/21_RemoteServices_OSGi_CommEvent08.pdf - http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Distributed-OSGi-Effort-Progresses/ Those should give you an idea of what the upcoming spec will contain. Especially the Iona blog is worth reading because they are part of the expert group. I talked to them in Berlin and it seems they are ironing out the final details. Greetings, Marcel
