Hi all, Earlier this week the OSGi Alliance has approved the OSGi 4.2 Enterprise Conformance Tests and Reference Implementations. The CXF-DOSGi project [1] is the Reference Implementation for the following OSGi 4.2 specs [2]:
* Chapter 13 - Remote Services This spec describes Distributed OSGi from a user's point of view. It standardizes the properties that can be put on an OSGi service to make it available remotely and how a consumer can find out whether it's dealing with a local service or a remote one. * Chapter 122 - Remote Services Admin This spec standardizes the interfaces between internal components Remote Services implementations typically have. A Distribution Provider, Topology Manager and Discovery System. This makes it possible to mix&match these components from various implementations. For more information see slides 6-8 at [3]. Many kudos to Marc Schaaf as he did a lot of the recent RI work. Also many kudos to Tim Diekmann from TIBCO who wrote the actual CT tests despite his busy schedule. So now that we have a passing RI I think it would make sense to start planning a CXF-DOSGi release. I'm wondering what we should do before that... 1. There are some SEVERE 'warnings' coming up, I believe from the Topology Manager. We should probably take a look at those. 2. I once added some Discovery system tests, which I ended up not enabling because of memory issues. I might want to try and get them working on all platforms. 3. Anything else? Best regards, David [1] http://cxf.apache.org/distributed-osgi.html [2] http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release4V42 [3] http://www.slideshare.net/bosschaert/whats-newinos-gi42enterprise
