[ecf-dev] Question: UI for reflective access to interfaces?

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

I've been working on some examples using the ECF remoteservices API 
(soon to have r-OSGI as provider/impl), and would like to present a user 
interface that given an interface class, allows the user to:

1) See the method names and type signatures of method parameters and 
return values (via reflective access to the interface class).
2) Enter/set the values of parameters (to some Serializable type), and 
constrain to appropriate type
3) Choose a method of remote invocation (e.g. proxy, synchronous, 
asynchronous with listener, future/asynchresult, etc)
4) Set/choose a timeout

What I would like to do is to present this interface when a service has 
been discovered (via the ECF discovery), and allow the user/developer to 
decide which methods to invoke (1), set any/all parameters for those 
methods (2), and then invoke the remote method (3-4).  I think this 
could be a nice aid for development/testing/debugging of remote OSGi 
services.

I thought perhaps there might be something like this for either jdt 
refactor/debug, pde, or wtp (web services).  If people know of such a 
UI, or would like to contribute such a thing please say so.

Scott