Remote Services and Remote Service Admin were indeed the terms I was looking for. Thanks Neil!
2015-05-30 13:55 GMT+02:00 Sebastiaan la Fleur < sebastiaan.la.fl...@gmail.com>: > Thanks for your reply! Yeah, I was thinking about that when I was in the > shower just now haha. Sorry about that. > > To rephrase: Is there a connection handler component in the Felix > framework that already handles accepting and losing socket connections > which can also be used to send or are we stuck using our own implementation > on top of java sockets? Does that component already use some form of > application layer protocol to abstract from the streams into information > packets? > > I want to be able to talk between different nodes (send textual and video > data). Of course I can write my own connection managing software, but I > would expect something like that to already be in Felix. I saw Felix > contains a subproject to handle HTTP servlets, but the client server > architecture of HTTP is not entirely suitable in my case. Both clients need > to be able to start a connection to each other and both clients need to be > able to start the conversation on the established connection. > > Hopefully this is a lot clearer to what I am searching for! > > 2015-05-30 13:19 GMT+02:00 Neil Bartlett <njbartl...@gmail.com>: > >> That's a really wide-open question... "information exchange over a >> network" could mean so many things! Can you be more specific about your >> requirements? >> >> In the meantime, take a look at the Remote Services and Remote Service >> Admin specs as they may be relevant. >> >> -- >> Neil Bartlett >> Sent from a phone >> >> >> On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 11:36, Sebastiaan la Fleur wrote: >> >> > Hi everyone! >> > >> > As of yesterday I am trying to get into Apache Felix for a project. I >> am still trying to get a basic grip on the framework. So far, if I am >> understanding correctly the framework allows for remote install, update >> etc. of bundles(highly modulerized code) on different devices which allows >> for the management of large distributed systems. I have been looking for a >> way to let these devices communicate using the framework but so far I was >> not able to find any subproject or piece in the OSGi specification that >> allows for this. Probable is that I missed it though(quite a bit of info >> :P). Does Felix have a subproject/implementation to handle basic >> information exchange over a network between OSGi capable devices? If so, >> could you direct me to the place where the documentation of this is stored? >> > >> > I did come across something called SIP but it seemed fairly >> comprehensive for my goals. >> > >> > Thanks in advance! >> > >> > >> > Sincere Regards, >> > >> > Sebastian >> >> >