Scott Lewis

Remote OSGi Declarative Services

August 4, 2009

There is a very cool new tutorial by Bryan Hunt for using ECF’s implementation of the OSGi Distributed OSGi spec (RFC 119) and OSGi Declarative Services (DS) together to do remote declarative …

Teamwork, Innovation and Diversity

July 28, 2009

I was really impressed with this article from today’s NY Times: Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork I was particularly fond of this quote: The biggest lesson learned, according to members …

Early bird defines the worm!

June 29, 2009

In his posting All contributions are Equal, some are more equal than others, Robert Konigsberg points out that contributing multiple ways of doing things can easily lead to more user complexity (e.g., …

API Layering for Distributed OSGi

June 25, 2009

We’ve added to our distributed OSGi documentation (with examples+source) for ECF 3.0/Galileo: Distributed OSGi Services with ECF Getting Started with ECF’s RFC119 Implementation Getting Started Using …

Portland Galileo DemoCamp - ECF slides

June 19, 2009

As Elias and Darin already blogged, there was a memorable DemoCamp session in Portland Wednesday night. Thanks to Instantiations for organizing and hosting. The ECF slides for this are available on …

Distributed OSGi EventAdmin Service

June 16, 2009

For those interested, there’s a new Distributed OSGi EventAdmin Service remote services example now available. What does this mean? Well, you can now create distributed implementations of OSGi …

Those Leaky Networks

May 6, 2009

In previous blog posts I’ve blogged about ECF’s upcoming implementation of RFC 119. In this post, I would like to jump out of the description of RFC 119 and talk about how the implementation of RFC …

ECF and RFC119 - D'oh-SGi

April 28, 2009

There’s a bug open for ECF to figure out a better/real name for it’s implementation of RFC 119. Soon, we’re going to have an online vote to decide the winning name…but I wanted to say that my favorite …

The Logic of Collective Action

April 7, 2009

In the last few days, there have been a number of provocative and interesting posts around the issue of how to maintain Eclipse’s innovation, as well as commercial growth, and project contributions …

ECF and RFC 119 - A rose by any other name...

April 1, 2009

ECF is finishing up it’s implementation of RFC 119 (distributed OSGi) for release with Galileo (aka ECF 3.0). Over beers at EclipseCon, Ian Skerrett suggested to me that we needed a name for this …