ECF 3.13.6 now available

[Scott Lewis <sl...@composent.com>]

ECF provides a full spec-compliant and ct-tested implementation of R6 
OSGi Remote Services and Remote Service Admin [1].

As of today's release, ECF's RSA implementation and dependencies are 
available via Maven Central [2].   Consequently, the Karaf features 
listed at [1] now use Maven Central.

ECF's RSA impl supports a variety of distribution providers [3], 
including Jax-RS impls CXF and Jersey, Google RPC/Protocol Buffers, 
XML-RPC, MQTT, JMS, ROSGI, Hazelcast, and JavaGroups. It's 
straightforward to introduce custom distribution or discovery systems 
while remaining specification-compliant [4] .

A new capability we are preparing to release soon is using RSA for 
Python-based OSGi services [5].   This will allow Python impls and 
consumers of arbitrary OSGi services [5].

Scott

[1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/EIG:Install_into_Apache_Karaf

[2] http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/ecf/

[3] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Distribution_Providers

[4] 
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tutorial:_Creating_Custom_Distribution_Providers

[5] https://github.com/ECF/Py4j-RemoteServicesProvider