IPF subprojects
Since version 2.0 of IPF several existing components as well as newly developed components have been moved to IPF subprojects. There are currently two IPF subprojects which are described in the following subsections.
IPF Tools
This project provides Eclipse-based development, administration and monitoring tools for the Open eHealth Integration Platform.
- The development tools support developers in creating, testing and packaging IPF applications within the Eclipse plugin development environment (PDE). IPF applications created with these tools can be deployed and operated on OSGi R4.1 platforms. Part of the development tools is the IPF Runtime - the OSGi edition of IPF.
- The administration and monitoring tools are Eclipse plugins for managing IPF platform and application resources. Examples are JMX-based system management clients or the IPF platform manager.
- The IPF runtime is an Eclipse plugin that make IPF features and services available for application development inside Eclipse. The runtime is used to develop OSGi-based IPF applications.
For guidelines how to contribute to this project refer to the Contributing page of the IPF documentation.
IPF Lab
This project is the incubation area for the projects Open eHealth Integration Platform and Open eHealth Integration Platform Tools. Contributions of new features from the IPF community will be mainly done in this project. New features may come from existing IPF applications or are developed from scratch directly in the IPF Lab. This project also hosts components from current research activities such as integrating IPF into cloud-computing environments or into different web application frameworks. For guidelines how to contribute to this project refer to the Contributing page of the IPF documentation.