Hi,
I'm the project lead for the Eclipse Communication Framework [1].
Among other things, ECF provides an implementation of the OSGi R7 Remote
Services/Remote Service Admin specifications [2].
ECF supports pluggable 'distribution providers', responsible for the
rpc, serialization/marshalling, and wire protocol. We have upwards of
10 distribution providers [3] created by us and others.
I've recently learned about Apache Dubbo, and decided to use it to
create a new ECF Remote Service Distribution Provider [4]. What this
means is that Apache Dubbo can now be used as a distribution impl for
any OSGi remote service. This also makes it quite possible to have
Other Runtimes -> OSGi and OSGi->Other runtimes and retain all the OSGi
service dynamics, injection through declarative services, etc.
If the Dubbo dev community is interested, I could easily describe how
Dubbo extensibility could be exposed via the OSGi service
registry/remote services. This would make it possible for Dubbo to be
easily extended using the OSGi service registry.
If Dubbo folks wanted to expose Dubbo modules as OSGi bundles, I believe
this could also be easily done and would be happy to contribute it back
to Dubbo.
One technical question: With Dubbo, is it possible to listen for
asynchronous events (such as disconnection/failed reconnect requests)
and respond to them? If so are there docs or examples of how to do
this? (java API best).
Thanks.
Scott
[1] http://www.eclipse.org/ecf https://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF
[2]
https://osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.remoteserviceadmin.html
[3] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Distribution_Providers
[4] https://github.com/ECF/DubboProvider
