+1 for both ideas. Thanks Freeman On 2011-7-20, at 下午11:16, Gert Vanthienen wrote:
L.S., Looking at mails on the user mailing lists and going by my own production project experience, I'm seeing two use cases for ServiceMix where we could support our user base by providing new packaging options for Apache ServiceMix. 1). A lot of our users seem to be using only Camel/ActiveMQ (and perhaps CXF) on their Karaf runtimes. Many people don't have a use case for JBI/NMR and then decide to just create the container they are looking for by adding things on top of Karaf directly. I think it would be a good idea to add a apache-servicemix-4.x.0-minimal distribution which only packages and installs these basic bundles and leaves everything else there as optional features. Given that we are recommending the use of Camel/ActiveMQ/CXF over JBI/NMR ourselves a lot, we should really have our distribution represent that recommendation. Over time, we might even consider making this the default download and renaming the existing one to apache-servicemix-4.x.0-jbi instead or something. 2). Another question we occasionally see on the mailing lists is from users that are running ServiceMix on machines that don't have internet access and that are having a hard time installing optional features. In order to cater for that need, we could add an apache-servicemix-4.x.0-full distribution that contains bundles for all the features we ship with, regardless of whether they're installed by default or not. A quick test shows that it would become over 200 MB in size, which might make the release process a bit heavy, but one other hand: there's definitely a user base for this kind of convenient all-in-one download as well. What do people think about adding these two packaging options? Regards, Gert Vanthienen ------------------------ FuseSource Web: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/
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