Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Apache Servicemix Kernel subproject moves to Apache Felix

So the big news in the Apache Servicemix project, after its recent 4.0 release, is the move of the Kernel subproject over to Apache Felix. This change came about for several reasons which were discussed on Guillaume Nodet's blog. After some discussion on the mail lists, the name "Karaf" was accepted for the subproject. As annouced by Guillaume, the vote to move the subproject was successful and the work to make the move began.

Now that the process has begun to establish Apache Felix Karaf, I thought it would be good to start publishing a few links so that Kernel developers & users could find its new home.

Karaf Overview:
http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-karaf.html

Karaf Users' Guide:
http://felix.apache.org/site/karaf-users-guide.html

Karaf issue tracker (see Karaf component):
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/Felix

Karaf source code (anonymous check out from Felix trunk):
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/felix/trunk/karaf/

Felix project contributing guide:
http://felix.apache.org/site/contributing.html

FUSE ESB 4.1 Released!

FUSE ESB 4.1 is now available at FUSESource.

FUSE ESB 4 is an enterprise version of Apache ServiceMix 4 – the most popular standards-based open source ESB. FUSE ESB 4 continues to provide support for widely adopted integration standards like JBI 1.0 and JMS while also ensuring support for the latest emerging standards like OSGi. The new FUSE ESB 4 provides a single platform that makes it easy for developers to implement the integration patterns they need with the programming model of their choice

Get your copy here:
http://fusesource.com/products/enterprise-servicemix4/

Release Notes:
http://fusesource.com/wiki/display/ProdInfo/FUSE+ESB+v4.1+Release+Notes

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Apache ServiceMix 4.0.0 Released!

I'm pleased to echo the following ServiceMix announcement:

"The Apache ServiceMix team is pleased to annouce the release of Apache ServiceMix 4.0.

Download links and detailed release notes are available at
http://servicemix.apache.org/smx4/servicemix-400.html

Apache ServiceMix 4.0 is the first release of our OSGi based integration platform. It includes two major components:

  • Apache ServiceMix Kernel 1.1.0 : an OSGi runtime with a lot of extra features (SSH connectivity,provisioning enhancements, Spring integration, ...)
  • Apache ServiceMix NMR 1.0.0 : an OSGi based NMR and JBI container, which also comes with a new clustering engine ready for enterprise deployment

In addition, ServiceMix 4.0 also ships with enhanced ActiveMQ, Camel and CXF integration as well as a whole set of examples to let you leverage this functionality. We also have out-of-the-box support for deploying and running web applications, so they can run together with everything else in the same container."