[sensinact-dev] OSGi Remote Services

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

I just learned of the Sensinact project.   I'm a committer on the 
Eclipse Communication Framework [1].

Given what I've read about the Sensinact architecture so far (based upon 
services, and looking to support multiple IoT protocols, I would like to 
suggest that you consider using OSGi Remote Services [2].   OSGi Remote 
Services (and Remote Service Admin) are specifications for distributing 
OSGi services across multiple processes.   ECF has a spec-complete  and 
CT-tested implementation for > 5 years, and our impl has the unique 
characteristic that is has open and pluggable distribution and discovery 
systems, allowing multiple transport and serialization protocols (called 
'providers') to be supported without affecting the service layers.   
Following the OSGi Remote Service spec also allows the automatic and 
complete integration with (e.g.) Declarative Services, iPojo, and others.

We currently have distribution providers for mqtt, xmpp, http, tcp, 
jax-rs, jms, xml-rpc, hazelcast, javagroups, java<->python, and others 
[3], and have open apis for us or others to add new open or closed 
providers [4].

If you would like other/more pointers or details about anything please 
let me or us know (ecf-dev mailing list).

Scott

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/ecf

[2] 
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Communication_Framework_Project#OSGi_Remote_Services

[3] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Distribution_Providers

[4] 
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tutorial:_Creating_Custom_Distribution_Providers