Camel in Action

 

I received my personal copy of Camel in Action from Jon Anstey this week, I thought I'd share the inscription:

"Jamie,

Bet you never thought our coffee & code

outings would result in something like

this :) Enjoy the read!

Jon"

'Back in the day' Jon & I would met up and head downtown for some free wifi and code time. The venue of choice was Hava Java. I spent my time on Servicemix 3 and a little sub-project called the Servicemix Kernel, while he was working on Camel. We'd basically try to pick a Jira issue and submit a patch by the time the wifi would overload & shutdown, or his wife arrived to end the nerd games ;)

Those were good times, and I'm excited to see his (and Claus') work in print! Great job guys!

The future of JDK 1.5 support at Apache Karaf

After some discussion on the Apache Karaf dev list we've come to a consensus on Java 1.5 support. The Karaf 2.x line will continue to maintain JVM 1.5 compatibility. Going forward, with the Karaf 3.x line, JVM 1.6 becomes the minimum supported JVM version.

As of this writing no 3.x branch of Karaf exists. We currently only have 2.1.x and 2.2.x series releases planned which will of course be JVM 1.5 compatible. Any future 2.x branches will also be JVM 1.5 compatible.

Apache Karaf on Hudson

We have updated the Apache Karaf build profiles on Hudson to include the Karaf 2.1.x patch branch and the main line trunk.

Apache Karaf 2.1.x:
https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/job/Karaf-2.1.x/

Apache Karaf main line:
https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/job/Karaf

This should improve maintenance and support as builds will automatically deploy snapshots to the Apache repositories, allowing users to pick up bug fixes even faster :)