A talk I gave at Red Hat's Middleware 2020 virtual conference. A basic introduction to EclipseRT, Equinox and OSGi.

1. EclipseRT, Equinox and OSGi
Chris Aniszczyk
zx@redhat.com
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2. Agenda
 Eclipse
 EclipseRT
 Software Landscape
 Toast
 Stackless Stacks, Equinox and CODA
 Summary
 Q&A
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3. Eclipse? Middleware? Runtimes? What?
 Eclipse is a trusted source of development tools
 However, Eclipse is more than just tools!
 There are 200+ Eclipse.org projects
 Eclipse provides a wide selection of...
 Runtime Containers
 Middleware
 Enterprise Frameworks
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4. What is EclipseRT?
 EclipseRT is the name given to the runtime projects
 http://eclipse.org/eclipsert/whitepaper/eclipseRT.php
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5. EclipseRT-related Projects at Eclipse.org
 Equinox  eRCP
 Riena  Swordfish
 RAP  Jetty
 EMF++  GEF
 BIRT  SMILA
 EclipseLink  e4
 ECF  Higgins
 Gemini  Virgo
http://www.eclipse.org/projects
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6. Common Denominator?
 It’s all OSGi based!
 http://www.osgi.org
 Infrastructure-related projects
 Modular philosophy
 Realizing Eclipse value, in runtimes
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7. EclipseRT Adopters
 Jazz  Lotus
 SpringDM (Gemini)  NASA
 SAP  Infor
 GlassFish  Websphere
 Oracle  US Army
 JP Morgan  ...
http://eclipse.org/eclipsert/case_studies/case_studies.php
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8. Who’s Buying the Story?
“OSGi and The Rise of The Stackless
Stack: Just in Time”
“Towards a
“JBoss is working mainstream Open
on OSGi too” Source OSGi
application server?”
“Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi:
simplified development of OSGi
applications”
“Keeping an eye on the
OSGi”
Alex Fletcher, Entiva Group
“Top Five Java
Technologies to Learn in
2008”
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9. The Software Landscape
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10. How did we get here?
 Software complexity increases over time...
 Software is becoming more specialized
 Lack of a common component model
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11. An EclipseRT Example: Toast
 Toast is an EclipseRT example
 Demonstrates a wide variety of EclipseRT technology
 Targets the telematics and fleet management domain
 Imagine...
 Telematics information from fleet vehicles
 Fleet management control center
 A large courier company with vehicles and packages
 The application domain is extremely rich
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12. Toast Modules
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13. Toast Modules
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Toast
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14. Technology in Toast
 Equinox  Derby
 p2  Amazon EC2
 ECF  SLP
 BIRT  Twitter
 RCP  JavaScript
 RAP  Google Earth
 Jetty
 EclipseLink
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Toast
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15. What makes Toast possible?
 OSGi and Equinox
 Modularity
 API
 CODA
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16. Monolithic Middleware and Stackless Stacks
 Traditional middleware is monolithic; a comfortable
place to run applications but comes with a lot of
baggage
 Ideally, you only want to run what you need
 EclipseRT allows you to specialize your own enterprise
stack based on your needs via Equinox and OSGi
http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2008/02/05/osgi-and-the-rise-of-the-stackless-stack-just-in-time/
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17. OSGi and Equinox
 Equinox is an OSGi runtime framework implementation
 Equinox is the foundation of EclipseRT
 Equinox provides a common component model and
runtime via OSGi
 Allows you to specialize the enterprise stack for your
application’s needs
 This component oriented approach allows you to
spend less time carving down bulky runtimes
 We all this component oriented approach CODA...
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18. CODA
 Component Oriented Development and Assembly
Multiple Customize Individual
Component Components Solutions
Producers
http://www.eclipse.org/equinox-portal/whitepaper/20080310_equinox.php
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19. Platforms
 Platforms are all about components
 EclipseRT and CODA enables you to build platforms
 Example: NASA and the Ensemble platform
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20. Summary
 Eclipse is more than just a tools framework
 Eclipse is evolving into runtimes via EclipseRT
 EclipseRT allows you to build your own stacks
 The tight integration between Eclipse tools and
EclipseRT provides a great developer experience
 EclipseRT and CODA is the future of runtime
technology at Eclipse
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21. Question and Answers?
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