A brief update on the progress of the Eclipse Paho project for the M2M Birds-of-a-Feather meet up at EclipseCon 2012 in Reston, Virginia

1. Eclipse Paho:
MQTT and the Internet of Things
Andy Piper (@andypiper)
mqtt.org / Eclipse Paho
Eclipse M2M Birds-of-a-Feather
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2. pāho (verb) (-tia) to broadcast,
make widely known, announce,
disseminate, transmit.
(via the Maori dictionary)
“...the Paho project has been created to provide
scalable open-source implementations of open
and standard messaging protocols aimed at new,
exisiting, and emerging applications for Machine-
to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT)”
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3. MQTT: MQ Telemetry Transport
• MQTT has been a published protocol for a number of years to assist & ease of
adoption by device vendors and third-parties - http://mqtt.org/
• In August 2011, Eurotech and IBM announced their intention to take the MQTT
specification to a formal standards organisation – see
http://mqtt.org/2011/08/open-invitation-to-join-the-mqtt-standardization-
discussion
• On November 2nd at EclipseCon the following was announced:
• The formation of a new M2M Industry Working Group at the Eclipse Foundation,
with Sierra Wireless, Eurotech and IBM as founding members, to work on growing
and scaling device connectivity solutions with open source tools, frameworks and
runtimes.
• The contribution of the IBM MQTT client code (C and Java) to a new Eclipse
project "Paho".
• MQTT has potential as a major enabling technology for the future of machine to
machine (M2M), business to consumer (B2C) and business to employee (B2E)
interaction.
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4. Eclipse Paho: Proposal
The scope of the Paho project is to provide open source
implementations of open and standard messaging protocols that
support current and emerging requirements of M2M integration with
Web and Enterprise middleware and applications. It will include
client implementations for use on embedded platforms along with
corresponding server support as determined by the community.
In order for M2M device and client developers to integrate, develop
and test messaging components end-to-end, Paho will address the
development of frameworks and sample code needed to support
testing and development of end-to-end device connectivity with a
server. The project will make these available in an
Eclipse M2M sever “sandbox”, as recommended by
the Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group.
The Paho project scope includes the development
of tooling that will support effective use, integration
and testing of the messaging components.
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5. Progress report!
• M2M “sandbox” instance of mosquitto broker available:
• m2m.eclipse.org:1883
• currently, no multi-tenancy, security etc
• Initial source code contributions from IBM on Eclipse Git:
• C client
http://git.eclipse.org/c/paho/org.eclipse.paho.mqtt.c.git/
• Java client
http://git.eclipse.org/c/paho/org.eclipse.paho.mqtt.java.git/
•Project mailing list and wiki available:
•paho-dev
•http://wiki.eclipse.org/Paho
•End-to-end demos at EclipseCon 2012: Koneki LDT, Eurotech etc.
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6. Getting involved
• Paho Bugzilla becoming active ☺→ bugs.eclipse.org
• Most activity still via mqtt.org community; aim to drive more
interaction via paho-dev mailing list
• where relevant to Paho topics!
• specification discussion via the MQTT Google Group
• Write-up use cases, build guides, experiences etc
• Hashtag Twitter discussions → #mqtt #paho (and @mqttorg)
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7. Next Steps?
• Eurotech Eclipse plugin contribution
• Cross-platform builds → downloads available as binary “quickstarts”
• Build guides and tutorials (EclipseCorner?)
• Advocate to wider Eclipse community (beyond Koneki / Lua)
NB “when’s the coming out party?”
• e.g. Android mobile dev, OSGi framework, etc.
• Identify additional requirements:
• Java/OSGi-based MQTT server (e.g. Ford/openxcPlatform, Hitachi/
home devices, etc)
• bring additional language bindings into Paho (Lua, others?)
• M2M Developer Portal
• More M2M-IWG participation, and progress to standards body
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