On 01/09/2011 11:26 AM, Stefano Lenzi wrote:
Dear LongkerDandy,


Regarding the DLNA topic I believe that we should have access to DLNA
specification/guideline to provide a more comprehensive solution

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 13:27, LongkerDandy<[email protected]>  wrote:
Hi

I think it would be reasonable to implement and abstract UPnP stack
library which decouple the OSGi UPnP Base Driver from a particular
UPnP stack implementation, but I think that we may have to thiank a
bit on it, and moreover we may provide the bridge to the CyberLink
UPnP stack but would be difficult to upkeep the code with other UPnP
stack solution, unless you or Bruce would provide some help ;)

Is that possible that Felix maintains a UPnP/DLNA implement?
I mean, not just fetching CyberLink's code, but take control the whole life
cycle.
Regarding taking control of CyberLink code it may be possible, but I
don't know if we have to get an signed grant from Satoshi Konno and
all the contributors of CyberLink source code even if the CyberLink
lincense is a BSD style license. @Richard do you have any idea?

I think the grant is for when ASF is getting its own copyrighted licensed version of some code donated to it. I am not sure what the rules are with respect to forking some code with a BSD license...we'd have to ask. ASF code is supposed to be Apache licensed, so it could be an issue.

-> richard

And someone has already created a OSGi UPnP bundle with Cling:
http://code.google.com/p/bwgz-org/
Well, it seems that the project was created 2 days ago and there is no
contribution at the moment

Regards
LongkerDandy

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Francesco Furfari<
[email protected]>  wrote:

Hi Jackson,

I think that we should not miss the opportunity to propose requirements
that facilitate the effective use of UPnP Spec, for example to build DLNA
compliant products.

The new specification could include new conventions that can be easly
adopted by UPnP implementations.
The Patrick's solution follows this line, but in my opinion it is a
vertical solution to solve only the DLNA's requirements.
Moreover it helps only to export DLNA devices, but nothing is stated about
the importing of DLNA devices.

I don't know the DLNA guidelines to say whether the current OSGi
specification is well suited, but I guess DLNA is built on top of the
"Non-standard vendor extensions" mechanism provided by UPnP, and such
mechanism  is not covered by OSGi, nor there is an alternative way to
access/provide to the XML description of a UPnP Device. For example, the
Felix UPnP  implementation provides an interface to retrieve the URL of  a
UPnPDevice (or UPnPService) by UUID but it is not an standard solution.

So I think there are open issues it would be worth to discuss ;-)
Is there a way to access to the DLNA guidelines/recommendation ?
Can you provide us some pointer?

Best regards,
Francesco




On 08/01/2011 20.47, Jackson, Bruce wrote:

I am the Chair of the DLNA Software Certification task force in DLNA, and
have also produced a stack for DLNA based around the OSGi R4 UPnP
specification. DLNA does not require anything more than is already defined
in the existing OSGi specification, however, the current implementation of
the driver has several problems which will result in non-compliance with
DLNA specifications.

In general, OSGi has defined interfaces for companions services rather
than specific implementations, and its the implmentation that is the
problem here. In our implementation of the OSGi R4 UPnP interfaces, we
have used the approach set out by Patrik to allow the DLNA headers to be
added to the device Dictionary.

On 08/01/2011 03:31, "LongkerDandy"<[email protected]>    wrote:

  Hi
I'm not a expert on UPnP/DLNA.

I hope OSGi could include/consider the DLNA implement, since it already
have
UPnP.

And due to the fact we don't have a comprehensive open source Java
UPnP/DLNA
implement, we may need some work around.
A bridge is just my quick thought ;D, I think the separation of different
modules will be better.

Patrick in (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2730)  already
point
out some important facts.
But I'm not sure the change to the xml generation would be enough.
I didn't purchase the DLNA Guidelines, from what I see DLNA also define
different discover method.
And additional devices like device for mobiles.

As a Java developer, I find it difficult to make a dlna app.
Since lacking of decent library and dlna charge a fee for their document
and
test case.

Thanks for your concern
LongkerDandy

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Kai Hackbarth
<[email protected]>wrote:

  Hi all,
the OSGi Residential Expert Group is currently collecting requirements
for
the new specification. If you let us know the requirements, we can work
on
an update of the UPnP specification.

Regards,
Kai

Am 07.01.2011 um 13:47 schrieb Francesco Furfari:

  Dear LongkerDandy,
I think the right place to ask about  updates of the UPnP

Specification
is the OSGi Alliance ([email protected])

or the OSGi  Residential Expert Group.

You are right, the OSGi UPnP specification hides a number of things

(there are pro and cons).

Few weeks ago there was a simple request about DLNA.
Please look at Felix-2370 issue (

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2730)

Which are the missing features you would like to have in a customized

UPnP implementation?

Please open or modify  an issue and specify your requirements.

Yes, the CyberlinkJava was not very active recently, but the bridge

solves only partially the problem, in any case (for DLNA)  we need a
review
of the specification.

I don't know Cling, how much distance there is from the Cyberlink

stack
to easily design an abstraction layer.

Another approach would be the modularization of all the UPnP stack, I

mean the clear separation of the SOAP, GENA, and SSDP modules.

Regards,
Francesco



On 06/01/2011 16.15, LongkerDandy wrote:

Hi

I'm not sure this is the right place to talk about this.


I've been trying to write a Media Server, for a while.
Already did some code with felix, (

https://github.com/longkerdandy/chii2).
I know OSGi has a UPnP standard and Felix has implement with
CyberlinkJava.
But seems the project is not very active, even it shipped with a
Media
Server sample, it won't work.
The fact is most devices/softwares are now compatible with DLNA.
And they somehow buggy may need different headers or respond.

OSGi hide all the UPnP stack, all I can get is a device interface.
I think the idea behind that is a full UPnP stack supports all the

devices.
But this may not work in real world, especially the UPnP stack is not
actively maintained.

Projects like PS3 Media Sever and Serviio is build from scratch.
Now I'm trying Cling(http://teleal.org/projects/cling), another Java

UPnP
stack.
My thought is,

DLNA is not as open as UPnP.
OSGi may also support DLNA, and let us have a real OpenSource Java

DLNA
implementation.
For now, can we make a bridge between UPnP driver and real UPnP

stack.
Thus make the UPnP stack switch-able.
Regards
LongkerDandy



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