[virgo-dev] Virgo and ECF remote services

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Virgoers,

I work on the ECF project [1].  We have an implementation of OSGi 4.2 
remote services [2], and we're now finishing up an implementation of the 
OSGi 4.2 remote services admin spec [3] for release in late Feb 2011.

Recently, we've had several folks in our consumer community (e.g. [4]) 
that have asked about using ECF remote services along with Virgo.  As 
far as I/we can tell, this should be eminently doable, as Neil Bartlett 
has successfully run ECF remote services (along with dependencies) on 
Felix [5].

However, some reports from users (e.g. [4]) have been that the Virgo 
runtime does not resolve the org.eclipse.equinox.common bundle.  We have 
some dependencies on classes that are exposed by equinox.common (as well 
as some other equinox APIs...like jobs API...and concurrent API...and 
extension registry), but these can/should/do run just fine inside of 
other OSGi frameworks.

Is there some 'trick' to running equinox.common and some other equinox 
pieces in Virgo that we can notify our/your users about?  It would be 
quite nice for both our user communities if the ECF remote services and 
remote services admin were to run easily inside of Virgo...and it seems 
to me this should be doable.  But perhaps I'm missing something.

Thanksinadvance for any information.

Scott

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/ecf
[2] http://eclipseecf.blogspot.com/2010/11/ecf-34-remote-services.html
[3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=324215
[4] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ecf-dev/msg04694.html
[5] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/ecf-dev/msg04212.html