Equinox Incubator

Mission Statement

The goal of the Equinox Incubator is to experiment with techniques for broadening the range of Eclipse platform runtime configurations. For example, areas such as security, the use of Equinox on the server and Aspect weaving are prime candidates for investigation in the Incubator.

These issues do not severely impact the usefulness of Eclipse as a development tool platform but they do affect the use of Eclipse in more constrained environments (e.g., handheld devices, IT managed environments, mass-appeal applications, servers, etc.). The Incubator project will investigate such issues and develop approaches which are practical and applicable to the main Equinox code base.

Work Areas

Aspects
Issues around Aspect-oriented programming, load-time weaving and modularity.
Resource Monitoring
A cool, lightweight, infrastructure for monitoring running OSGi based systems.
Security
Seeking to enable and integrate Java security mechanisms with Eclipse. See the wiki for additional info.
Server Side OSGi
This incubator project is targeted at eliminating barriers to using and integrating OSGi (and Equinox more specificially) on the server. Note that some of this work has graduated. See the server-side website.
Provisioning
This incubator project is targeted at investigating the 3.3 plan item around provisioning support.
OSGi Next
This incubator project is targeted at implementing prototypes of the specifications developed by the OSGi Alliance while the specification is being developed.

For an understanding of how work is carried out in the incubators, check out the How to Incubate guide.

What's New

Mar 10 - The Equinox Aspects team in the Equinox Incubator has released version 1.1.0 of the Equinox Aspects bundles. The release is compatible with Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4, the latest AJDT versions, adds caching of woven bundles for non-IBM VMs, fixes a number of bugs and improves stability.

Aug 10 - The Provisioning workarea team in the Equinox Incubator has released an M1a of the new provisioning support. For more information see the wiki.

Aug 8 - The Security workarea in the Equinox Incubator has come alive with various contributions from Lotus around JAAS, JCA and Keystores. Matthew Flaherty and Eric Li from Lotus have joined the incubator as committers working in the security area.

July - The team at Prosyst has contributed implementations of 4 standard OSGi services to the Equinox Incubator. And Pavlin Dobrev and Teodor Todorov from Prosyst have joined the incubator as committers.

June 5, 2007 - Matt Flaherty and Eric W Li from the Lotus division of IBM have joined as committers. They will be working on enabling security functionality for the Eclipse platform. More info in the security category of the wiki.

 

Committers

The following people are committers on the Equinox Incubator:

  • John Arthorne, IBM Rational
  • Oleg Besedin, IBM Rational
  • Pavlin Dobrev, Prosyst
  • Stoyan Boshev, ProSyst
  • Matt Flaherty, IBM Lotus
  • Ted Habeck, IBM Research
  • BJ Hargrave, IBM Lotus
  • Simon Kaegi, IBM Rational
  • Eric W Li, IBM Lotus
  • Stefan Liebig, compeople
  • Martin Lippert, it-agile
  • Jeff McAffer, Code 9 (Project co-lead)
  • Susan McCourt, IBM Rational
  • Andrew Niefer, IBM Rational
  • Pascal Rapicault, IBM Rational
  • Dave Stevenson, IBM Rational
  • Tom Watson, IBM Lotus (Project co-lead)
  • Matthew Webster, IBM Hursley
  • Ikuo Yamasaki, NTT Corporation
  • Heiko Seeberger, WeigleWilczek

Old Work Areas

See the Equinox Incubator Archive for details of previous work areas.

 

Incubator links
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