ECF 3.13.3 Available

ECF 3.13.3 is now available.

3.13.3 is a maintenance release, focused on fixes for ECF's implementation of OSGi Remote Services and Remote Service Admin.   Among other things, the tutorial that uses Karaf as the remote service host and Eclipse as the remote service consumer has been simplified and updated to use take maximum advantage of Java8 and Eclipse Neon.

Internet of Things and ECF Remote Services

Last week at EclipseCon Europe ECF committer Wim Jongman gave a talk where he cooked an egg using a hotplate, a Raspberry Pi, ECF Remote Services, and Eclipse Nebula.   Here's a screenshot of the RCP app he created to remotely control the Raspberry Pi and the connected hotplate:

Although I wasn't able to attend, I understand that after cooking, Wim consumed the egg onstage...and it went down pretty easy.  I'm looking forward to watching the video of the talk.  Congrats Wim.

Also, the Eclipse Newsletter has articles focused on Internet of Things, and we have an article about using ECF Remote Services with Raspberry Pi GPIO, which was also used to implement some of the behavior underneath Wim's egg cooker.

For other tutorials on using Remote Services with the Raspberry Pi as well as in other runtime contexts, see the ECF wiki documentation page.