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If the ECF generic server is created with an ID of ecftcp:///server then this should auto-default the host and port as if the server wasn't specified at all. This permits multiple instances to be created either with the same path (e.g. /server) or with different paths (e.g. /server1 /server2) but without needing to know the host/port combination. IContainer a = ContainerFactory.getDefault().createContainer("ecf.generic.server","ecftcp:///server" ); I'm not sure if the 2nd parameter here will be the final ID that gets used (ideally, you'd want it to return an ID of "ecftcp://my.host.name:4936/server") ?
Changing to enhancement, as this is enhancing the generic provider to support a new syntax for ID creation (i.e. ecftcp:///server). Also adding helpwanted, as our main project-level problem is resources for changes/additions. One germane technical question: in the case when a system has multiple host names...which one will assumed to be chosen? (e.g. my.host.name vs my1.host.name)
FYI...although not directly relevent, I thought I would let you know that there is a service for creating generic container groups/containers. See http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF_Servers and http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.5.1/javadoc/org/eclipse/ecf/server/generic/package-summary.html and yes...we are aware that the documentation is insufficient.
(In reply to comment #1) > Changing to enhancement, as this is enhancing the generic provider to support a > new syntax for ID creation (i.e. ecftcp:///server). Yup, seems reasonable. Note that this might be used by the examples to allow for a specification of a generic server but with an automatically selected port and host name. > One germane technical question: in the case when a system has multiple host > names...which one will assumed to be chosen? (e.g. my.host.name vs > my1.host.name) A host can have many IP addresses (and each IP address can have many host names). So there's a plethora to choose from. However, there is: java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost().getCanonicalHostName() I'd suggest this one should be the one to use for the generic host name. I'm pretty sure I've seen that elsewhere in some providers - though some providers just use InetAddress.getLocalHost() which can return an unqualfied host name (e.g. returns my1 instead of my1.host.name).
As of ECF 3.8.0 (March 2014) the generic provider supports an expanded set of remote service configuration properties...as detailed here: https://wiki.eclipse.org/EIG:Configuration_Properties#ECF_generic_provider This is in keeping with the OSGi RS/RSA specification...which dictates that provider-specific configuration properties be given as: <provider id>.<prop> e.g. ecf.generic.server.port or ecf.generic.server.hostname or ecf.generic.server.bindAddress For the generic provider, these properties above are available.
