Markus Kuppe

Scott Lewis

Check out linked slides below to find out more about this tutorial and how we intent to run it!

OSGi today enables us to build highly modular and dynamic systems. However, the restriction of having applications running on a single JVM hinders its feasibility as a communication model for a ubiquitous computing world.

In this tutorial the attendees will find out how ECF answers the questions of tomorrow's distribution needs. The workshop dives deeply into the Eclipse Communication Framework and shows how dynamic service discovery can be used in local as well as wide area networks to build a distributed service registry. On top of that, peer to peer (R-OSGi/ECF generic) or centralized (XMPP) remoting solutions hidden behind common APIs are explored in hands-on exercises.
The role of transparency is a topic when attendees try to access remote services or concerns like QoS or reliability arise in communication. With test driven development being a well established tool in modern day software engineering, the challenges that result from distribution and possible solutions will be explored in a group discussion. Attendees are asked to bring their favorite piece of hardware or service they want to put to use in a distributed OSGi environment.

Toast [1] will act as our playground which will be turned into a distributed application. Attendees are required to know their way around in the Eclipse SDK. This tutorial furthermore doesn't cover how to setup your development environment! Sound knowledge of OSGi as well as network communication is a prerequisite. But more importantly we expect you to be confident in a highly interactive setting and don't expect a step by step tutorial. The best way to describe it, would be a guided hackathon.

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