Here are a few thoughts I'd like to throw in for the next version of
ServiceMix:
* documentation (we really, really need that)
* better support for Blueprint: we should support blueprint for everyhting
we have, it would include Camel, ActiveMQ and ServiceMix components
* better scalability:
- we need to put back the asynchronous support for Camel (in camel JBI
and NMR transports)
- we need to improve CXF-BC to better support streaming (the
useJbiWrapper on the consumer could still use streaming as done in
servicemix-http soap endpoints)
- we need to find a real nice http client to have non blocking threads
and where we would be able to write to the stream instead of having to give
it an input stream
I'll try to improve the doc on karaf and move it into a docbook format for
easier integration into the servicemix doc, i think that would help too.
I'll work on the Blueprint stuff, as I've already started.
Claus is putting back async support in Camel, so once it's done, we should
be able to put back the change we reverted for upgrading to 2.0 in both JBI
and NMR compoennts for camel.
CXF-BC I think still needs some work from a scalability / performance point
of view. Having an HTTP client that could really be leveraged would be
awesome, but I don't know any that would really work yet. I think
httpcomponents may be a good candidate as it should be able to be used in
asynchronous and streaming mode.
Also, I think we should try to do some perfs / load testing and have the
defaults config behave nicely, even if we need to break some compatibility
at some point. For example, having the cxf-bc consumer being asynchronous
by default would make sense to me.
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Guillaume Nodet
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