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Re: [ecf-dev] ECF in mobile
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Christiano,
On 6/11/2012 8:51 AM, Cristiano Gavião wrote:
Hi guys,
I was reading this article:
http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-indigo-highlights-ecf
and there is a nice video of one android app using ECF and Google Wave.
Google wave was discontinued, so what is the alternative in actual
days for this kind of mobile applications ?
So...this effort (by Mustafa Isik and Sebastian Schmidt) used some of
the ECF core classes...and, in fact whole plugins/jars...to support the
Wave provider work [1]. These plugins/classes...and their runtime class
dependencies...were added to the Android projects as library jars (I
think)...and so were loaded/used at runtime without actually running a
complete OSGi framework.
Running outside of OSGi is something that can be done with
much...although not all...of ECF. I do this myself with other parts of
ECF (e.g. the shared object API)...in order to make it simple to create
Android-based clients that can easily and extensibly communicate/message
with ECF servers/services (that happen to run under a full OSGi framework).
There is some work (as yet undone) to do the releng associated with
using the relevant parts of ECF in a non-OSGi environment. For example,
the creation of the non-bundle jars and the elimination of the unneeded
classes from ECF, OSGi, and Equinox would be very desirable for this
usage...along with creating a single distribution-ready Android
library...rather than several jars. Doing these things would make it
much easier for people to consume/use ECF in Android environments.
One other point...although Google wave was discontinued as an
application, I suspect Google would like to continue to use (and have
others use) the wave protocol...i.e. [2]. This was the work upon which
[1] is based, so I don't think this is completely out of the technical
picture (although the Wave application is indeed discontinued). But I'm
not directly connected with the Wave protocol work these days...so I
could be wrong on this.
Scott
[1] https://github.com/ECF/Wave
[2] http://www.waveprotocol.org/
