This service is called by the Topology Manager to do the "heavy lifting" of expose local services as remote endpoints and creating local proxy services as clients for remote endpoints.

Aries RSA has a custom SPI DistributionProvider that facilitates creating new transports and serializations. The RemoteServiceAdmin bundle tracks such provider services and delegates the actual creation of endpoints and proxies to suitable providers.

Aries RSA runs the TCK compliance tests as part of the build process to ensure that it is fully compliant with the RSA specification. One of the details being tested is backwards compatibility with the EndpointListener interface for legacy endpoint event producers and consumers. This interface has been deprecated since release 1.1 of the spec in 2015, and superceded by the newer EndpointEventListener interface.

In order to be compliant with this requirement and pass the TCK tests, this module implements an EventListenerBridge component to bridge the two event types. However, since this is very unlikely to be needed in practice (only if an OSGi container runs two different local RSA implementations, both the modern Aries RSA implementation and another RSA implementation that is over a decade old), and since it may have some complexity and performance implications, this bridge is disabled by default.

To enable the bridge for full TCK compatibility, set the system property org.apache.aries.rsa.bridge to "true".

Needless to say, both the legacy interface and the bridge supporting it should be considered deprecated and may be removed in a future release. Anyone still using them is urged to upgrade to the new interface.