On 03/03/2014 04:34 PM, Neil Bartlett wrote:
> As a supplementary note, today you can use the Discovery and Topology
> aspects of OSGi Remote Services without the Distribution aspect for
> finding asynchronous endpoints and advertising presence.
> 
> For example suppose you have an AMQP broker, which can be represented as
> a URI something like this: "amqp:/hostname:port/exchangeId". You can
> advertise a service using a marker interface -- let's call it "Endpoint"
> -- setting the URI and service.exported.interfaces property. Then on a
> remote machine, you can use DS to inject the Endpoint service into your
> client code and get the AMQP URI. The client never directly invokes the
> service but uses the URI property to make an out-of-band connection.
> 
> The nice thing about this is you can easily de-advertise the URI by
> unpublishing the Endpoint service, so it's a very easy way to indicate
> presence.

Hi,

FWIW: ECF discovery [1] (which happens to be the underlying discovery
layer for ECF's implementation of OSGi remote services) also supports
registering a simple marker interface [2] that is then advertised by
(pluggable) discovery providers (WAN/LAN/...). On the receiving end one
registers a listener [3] via whiteboard pattern.

M.

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF/Discovery_API_Bundle
[2] org.eclipse.ecf.discovery.IServiceInfo
[3] org.eclipse.ecf.discovery.IServiceListener
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