[ecf-dev] first cut at new features

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

With a rapidly changing world for OSGi and Eclipse, it makes some sense 
for us (ECF) to create/support ways for people to consume parts of ECF 
for different uses.  Currently, we have one feature (i.e. the entire 
sdk)...and this allows someone to install all the ECF sdk via one 
feature into Eclipse.

ECF is now being used in ways other than within Eclipse, however, (e.g. 
in Equinox/OSGi-based servers, in RCP apps, etc.).  In order to make it 
easier to consume the appropriate parts of ECF for these other 
environments (as well as Eclipse), I've started creating features for 
subsets of the ECF bundles. 

For example:

Discovery:
/org.eclipse.ecf.discovery.feature
(discovery providers)
/org.eclipse.ecf.discovery.jmdns.feature
/org.eclipse.ecf.discovery.slp.feature

Remote Services and REST
/org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.feature
(remote services providers)
/org.eclipse.ecf.remoteservice.rosgi.feature
(more to come here...e.g. xmpp, jms/activemq, javagroups, etc)

OSGi remote services (previously known as RFC119):
/org.eclipse.ecf.osgi.services.feature

Datashare
/org.eclipse.ecf.datashare.feature

This isn't exhaustive (obviously...as we've got presence, telephony, 
filetransfer, other components as well).  And I wanted to put these on 
CVS so that we could discuss the shape/content of things (and make 
changes of course).  The feature projects are in this CVS module:

/cvsroot/rt
org.eclipse.ecf/releng/features

Please take a look at these if/when you can, and bring 
comments/thoughts/etc to the Monday Dec 7 conference call.

Thanksinadvance,

Scott