Please forgive this stupid question, but I have not found a good entry page for OH2. I would like to know what the overall objectives for OH2 are and what the major changes will be.
Sorry for asking, most probably it’s my missing skill on finding things in the internet.
sihui
February 19, 2016, 2:02pm
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Getting started:https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/blob/master/docs/sources/getting-started.md
Introduction:
_NOTE:_ The official documentation has moved from this repo to [http://docs.openhab.org/](http://docs.openhab.org/)!
## Introduction
The open Home Automation Bus (openHAB) project aims at providing a universal integration platform for all things around home automation. It is a pure Java solution, fully based on OSGi.
It is designed to be absolutely vendor-neutral as well as hardware/protocol-agnostic. openHAB brings together different bus systems, hardware devices and interface protocols by dedicated bindings. These bindings send and receive commands and status updates on the openHAB event bus. This concept allows designing user interfaces with a unique look&feel, but with the possibility to operate devices based on a big number of different technologies. Besides the user interfaces, it also brings the power of automation logics across different system boundaries.
For further Information please refer to our homepage [www.openhab.org](http://www.openhab.org).
## openHAB 2 Distribution
openHAB 2 is the successor of [openHAB 1](https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki). It is an open-source solution based on the [Eclipse SmartHome](https://www.eclipse.org/smarthome/) framework. It is fully written in Java and uses [Apache Karaf](http://karaf.apache.org/) together with [Eclipse Equinox](https://www.eclipse.org/equinox/) as an OSGi runtime and bundles this with [Jetty](https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/) as an HTTP server.
For the latest snapshot builds, please see to our [cloudbees job](https://openhab.ci.cloudbees.com/job/openHAB-Distribution/).
## Getting Started
Please refer to [our tutorials](http://docs.openhab.org/tutorials/) on how to get started with openHAB 2.
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Compatibility:https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/blob/master/docs/sources/features/compatibilitylayer.md
Migration from 1 to 2:https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/blob/master/docs/sources/migration.md
Eclipse and openhab:
