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About the ECF Project

ECF is a framework for building distributed servers, applications, and tools. It provides a modular implementation of the OSGi 4.2 Remote Services standard, along with support for REST-based and SOAP-based remote services, and asynchronous messaging for remote services.

See the ECF Wiki for examples, tutorials, other documentation, as well as plans and efforts currently underway for future releases.

Next Release

[new]ECF 3.6.1 released on 6/26/2013..

See also ECF 3.6.1 New and Noteworthy

What's New

[Adarrow] June 26, 2013 - ECF 3.6.1 is available on eclipse.org. See here for download. See ECF 3.6.1 New and Noteworthy

[Adarrow] March 10, 2013 - ECF 3.6.0 is available on eclipse.org. See here for download. See ECF 3.6.0 New and Noteworthy

[Adarrow] June 27, 2012 - ECF 3.5.6 (Juno) is available on eclipse.org. See here for download. See ECF 3.5 New and Noteworthy

[Adarrow] Nov 3, 2010 - Wim Jongman and Markus Alexander Kuppe presented ECF remote services at ESE2010 in Ludwigsburg. More information can be found at the conference website.

[Adarrow] Nov 2, 2010 - Committer Scott Lewis has two new blog posts: ECF 3.4 Remote Services and ECF 3.4 Released.

[Adarrow] Oct 26, 2010 - ECF committer Pavel Samolisov has written a nice article: ECF for Eclipse Customers. It describes some of the Eclipse developer collaboration features that come with ECF.

[Adarrow] Oct 13, 2010 - ECF has changed its source code repository from CVS to git The git repo can be found at http://git.eclipse.org/c/ecf/org.eclipse.ecf.git. The CVS repository remains online read-only for the moment but _won't be_ synced with git!.

[Adarrow] Oct 08, 2010 - Markus Alexander Kuppe gave a one day tutorial about ECF remote services as part of OSGi Summerschool at University Hamburg. Slides can be found online (German only).

[Adarrow] March 26, 2009 - Markus Alexander Kuppe and Scott Lewis present a talk about "Best Practices with distributed OSGi services" during EclipseCON 2009. As always the slides are available online.

[Adarrow] March 23, 2009 - Scott Lewis and Markus Alexander Kuppe gave a tutorial titled "Distributed OSGi - The ECF way" at EclipseCON 2009. The slides are available here.

[Adarrow] Nov 24, 2008 - Marcelo Mayworm and Scott Lewis gave a talk titled "ECF Inside and Out" at ESE08. A description of the talk is here, and the slides are available here.

[Adarrow] Nov 21, 2008 - Jan Rellermeyer, Markus Alexander Kuppe, and Scott Lewis gave a talk titled "Service Discovery and Remote Services with the Eclipse Communication Framework" at ESE08. Slides can be found here

[Adarrow] July 24, 2008 - Two ECF video demos available on live.eclipse.org See here for Cola Real-Time Shared Editing and here for ECF 2.0.0 - Some New Features.

[Adarrow] June 18, 2008 - ECF Committers Markus Kuppe and Jan Rellermeyer present ECF at OSGi Community Event, June 10 and 11, 2008. See here for the slides of their presentation. Here is the entire program.

[Adarrow] June 16, 2008 - Article about ECF on InfoQ.