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Bug 154087

Summary:	Server side support
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	Framework	Assignee:	equinox.framework-inbox <equinox.framework-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	bpasero, bradleyjames, dev, eclipse-bug, frydzewski, gorkem.ercan, Konstantin.Scheglov, pascal, remy.suen, simon_kaegi, wayne.beaton
Version:	3.3	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	3.3 M6
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne

2006-08-16 12:24:10 EDT

First it was tools, then it was applications, now server-side programmers are    waking up to the power of componentization delivered by Eclipse and OSGi. In the 3.2 cycle an Equinox incubator was started to investigate the use of Eclipse on the server. It started as a very modest servlet bridge allowing Eclipse to run inside a servlet engine and handle servlet requests and has been evolving into a full-blown appreciation of what it means to componentize server software.  There are many possible directions here and there is no way the Equinox team proper will be able to track, support and participate in all. However we will spend time understanding the basic requirements as they apply to the base framework and add-on services and look to support the use-cases presented by various other Eclipse projects that are adopting Eclipse on the server (e.g., ECF, ECP, Corona).

Comment 1 Thomas Watson

2007-03-30 10:33:05 EDT

We have graduated a large portion of the server-side in Europa.  Can this be closed for 3.3?

Comment 2 Simon Kaegi

2007-03-30 11:07:53 EDT

Yes. For 3.3 we've covered the major use-cases we wanted to see.
All the server-side bundles have graduated and apart from the servletbridge (which is available in the Equinox SDK) all the various components and dependencies are now part of the platform. Help / UA is using this support in 3.3 however the foundation is now there for others to use.

Closing, however help building up important use-cases and requirements for the next release would be appreciated.