On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:13 AM, James Strachan <ja...@fusesource.com> wrote: > On 29 June 2011 10:14, Geert Schuring <ge...@schuring.eu> wrote: >> I too have doubts about the Tomcat distribution. The software stack that >> ServiceMix consists of is already very complex, and contains all kinds of >> frameworks and components that can be used outside ServiceMix or OSGi as >> well. In my opinion ServiceMix should focus on providing a consistent, well >> documented environment instead of trying to serve as much different ways of >> implementation as possible. I think that's an important reason why the >> documentation has been so slow and painful for SMX 3 & 4. >> >> I think starting new documenation from scratch for SMX 5 is a very good >> idea. Combined with using scalate and storing the documentation in >> subversion, we should be able to write version specific and accurate >> documentation. >> >> Would it be possible to drop spring entirely and switch to blueprint for SMX >> 5? That again would simplify the examples and documentation, and would make >> SMX 5 more accessible to new users. > > An ESB is all about integration; so dropping support for things people > use is generally bad; though for sure we should recommend on OSGi > folks use blueprint as its simpler & smaller; though we should still > support folks using Spring. >
Yeah Spring is widely used. Its just that spring-dm is ... not their finest moment. Maybe that Eclipse Virgo is better (isnt that spring-dm 2.0). > -- > James > ------- > FuseSource > Email: ja...@fusesource.com > Web: http://fusesource.com > Twitter: jstrachan, fusenews > Blog: http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ > > Open Source Integration and Messaging > -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- FuseSource Email: cib...@fusesource.com Web: http://fusesource.com Twitter: davsclaus, fusenews Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/ Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen/
