Hi Scott,
thanks for the clarification, I indeed misunderstood some concepts
behind ECF. I will consider your statement for our next project
although I fear to run into truble with our project lead if I try to
convince him to use the young ECF technology rather than matured RMI
or something similar.
Regards,
Eugen
Am May 19, 2009 um 23:18 schrieb Scott Lewis:
Hi Eugen,
Eugen Reiswich wrote:
Hi Scott,
ECF is definitely one approach (and it does it really good) but
since it is not the only one remote framework I'm looking for a way
to decouple my bundles from any technology as much as possible. The
goal is to be able to switch from ECF to Riena or RMI or some other
technology with a minimal effort.
Yes, I understand this desire.
But one thing to clarify: I think it's a common misconception that
ECF's remote services API is actually a peer technology to Riena,
RMI, r-OSGi, CXF, SOAP-based web services, etc. It is *not* this.
The remote services API is just an abstract remoting/distribution
API *separate* from any/every implementation. Of course, ECF also
has provider/implementation bundles that implement the rs API, and
we have several of these ...e.g. based upon/using r-OSGI, RMI, JMS,
XMPP, and we expect soon Riena and others.
So, clients that use the remote services API (and/or our RFC 119
implementation...which is layed on top of the ECF remote service
API) have no effort to move to some other technology for
distribution. I see that as one of the main advantages of
separating out API from implementation technology for remoting/
distribution...and given the frequency and the traditional
difficulty of what you are doing (moving to some other distribution
technology) we think this advantage is significant.
In any case, sorry to all for the long-windedness on this
point...but we've been what I consider mischaracterized before as
being a peer/competitor with other distribution technologies...and
so I wanted to clarify this point.
Scott
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