Eclipse CFM Creation Review

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Proposal

Eclipse CFM

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 - 15:18 by James Marino
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Parent Project
Proposal State
Community Review
Background

This proposal is for a new specification project covering the **Eclipse CFM (Connector Fabric Manager)**. CFM is a management plane for dataspace services, including Connectors, Credential Services (Wallets), and Issuer Services. CFM consists of an extensible tenant manager and provisioning platform, as well as an Operator User Interface.  CFM enables service providers to automate the provisioning and management of core dataspace services across diverse operating environments. 

CFM will include integration with the Eclipse EDC and Eclipse Data Plane Core (DCore) projects.

Scope

Eclipse CFM provides a management plane and multi-role user interface for operators running EDC services and data planes built with the Eclipse DCore project. While CFM will include integrations with the Eclipse EDC and Eclipse Dcore projects, it is possible to extend the platform to support other dataspace service runtimes.

Description

The Eclipse CFM includes:

- A tenant management and provisioning system that can be extended to support a variety of dataspace-related services.
 - A multi-role user interface that supports operators, B2B resellers, and end users for tenant management and service provisioning.
- A demonstrator sample

Why Here?

Eclipse has a strong track record of hosting dataspace-related projects, which CFM targets. In addition, CFM will integrate directly with the Eclipse Data Plane Core and EDC projects.

Future Work

Our plan is to closely align with the Data Plane Core and EDC projects to provide a management plane to deploy and provision those components. 

Project Scheduling

We aim to have an initial release in February to correspond with dataspace-related activities being organized with members of the EDWG.

 

Committers
Luca Castello (This committer does not have an Eclipse Account)
Maksim Alexandrovich (This committer does not have an Eclipse Account)
Ernesto Colombo (This committer does not have an Eclipse Account)
Fulvio Cazzanti (This committer does not have an Eclipse Account)
Andrea Di Blasi (This committer does not have an Eclipse Account)
Leonardo Alfarano (This committer does not have an Eclipse Account)
Initial Contribution

We will provide two initial contributions which are ready for review:

  • Management plane components from Metaform Systems
  • A management plane UI from Aruba, SPA

The initial management plane contribution can be found here: https://github.com/Metaform/connector-fabric-manager

Source Repository Type

The Eclipse CFM includes:

- A tenant management and provisioning system that can be extended to support a variety of dataspace-related services.
 - A multi-role user interface that supports operators, B2B resellers, and end users for tenant management and service provisioning.
- A demonstrator sample