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.. date: 2011-11-03 14:49:41
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The web is currently buzzing with the announcement yesterday that IBM and
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Eurotech are donating MQTT to the Eclipse Foundation. One part of this is the
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new [Machine to Machine Working Group], again part of Eclipse. Another much more significant part
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has been released as part of a new Eclipse open source project [Paho], which is
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in the proposal stage.
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The exciting part is the "Initial contributions" section which states "The
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initial code contribution to Paho will include Java and C client-side
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implementations the MQTT protocol, contributed by IBM. "
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It looks like the code will be licensed under the EPL (Eclipse Public License).
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This is particularly exciting because there is currently no solid freely
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available and usable implementation of MQTT in Java.
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Well done everyone at IBM for making this happen. Roll on the end of November!
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Update:
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This post on mqtt.org explains what the various announcements mean more
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clearly: <http://mqtt.org/2011/11/eclipse-paho-open-source-and-other-news>
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Update 2:
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Andy Piper's blog post covers things even better, along with clearing up some
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of the confusions from the news releases:
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<http://andypiper.co.uk/2011/11/04/mqtt-goes-free-a-personal-qa/>
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[Machine to Machine Working Group]: http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2MIWG_charter_draft
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[Paho]: http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/technology.paho/
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