Hi All, Sunday June 30th 2013, a Apache Celix (mini) hackathon was hosted by Thales in Hengelo. Present where Pepijn (Thales), Alexander (Luminis), Jorge (Thales) and Nour (Hippo). The morning was spend discussing the concepts of OSGi, the ideas behind remote services, setting up the development environment, building Apache Celix and discussing which DNS-SD framework (Bonjour, Avahi) we would like to use. For the DNS-SD framework we decided to use apple's bonjour, because this is distributed under the Apache license.
In the afternoon we started programming on Apache Celix and Amdatu Remote Services. For Amdatu Remote Services we were able to discover and use services from different system using DNS-SD. For Apache Celix we where able to register and discover services with DNS-SD, but we did not have enough time left to integrate the discovery with the topology manager. We ended the day with beers and diner on a terrace in the - uhum - bustling city Hengelo. Personally I think this was a good hackathon. We achieved progress on remote services for Apache Celix and Amdatu Remote Service, had some interesting discussion about Apache Celix and the Apache Software Foundation in general and - hopefully - created a better understanding of the benefits of OSGi and - for c - Apache Celix. Greetings, Pepijn
