Re: ServiceMix 4.0

2007-08-24 Thread Terry Cox
Feel free to let me know when this is scheduled and I will try and attend. Terry

Re: ServiceMix 4.0

2007-08-22 Thread Terry Cox
Interesting. We need to have a very serious chat about application lifecycles and governance... Terry

Re: [jira] Commented: (SM-1002) Service mix hangs when the # concurrent requests exceeds the maxConnectionsPerHost

2007-08-16 Thread Terry Cox
So what if we put both limits to a very high number in the default configuration ? Is there any drawbacks? The risk there is that you are just increasing the size of the bang when it goes wrong. The system must degrade gracefully under heavy load in a production environment. If it has

Re: [jira] Commented: (SM-1002) Service mix hangs when the # concurrent requests exceeds the maxConnectionsPerHost

2007-08-16 Thread Terry Cox
This solution is intended for the provider site not for the consumer site. So what I mean is to limit the outgoing connections from servicemix (for example to an external web service) over the provider endpoint with the thread limit. It doesn't depend on the consumer site. Do you know what I

Re: [DISCUSS] Split container and components release cycles ?

2007-07-03 Thread Terry Cox
If we go that way, how could we deal with the examples ? I guess they would either require the use to download the components, or be available on a separate distros (and thus have their own release cycle too). Ideally needs a Maven-like dependency management system for components so that you

Servicemix-Bean

2007-03-07 Thread Terry Cox
I've been going over the servicemix-bean docs and as they are written at the moment, they seem to imply that most of the clever functionality can only be used in a static configuration. Is this actually the case or just an artifact of the way the documentation is structured? -- Terry

Re: Servicemix-Bean

2007-03-07 Thread Terry Cox
I'm going to write some tests to see how well things interoperate within the types of deployment scenarios I would expect to deal with on a large project. I think there is scope for some streamlining in the way projects can be developed and deployed quickly. -- Terry Cox Meta-Concepts Ltd

Re: Document servicemix-common

2007-03-06 Thread Terry Cox
about changing the code, nor the jar, just to do a bit more advertising on the the web site about it ... -- Terry Cox Meta-Concepts Ltd

Re: Removing ServiceMix build on continuum

2007-02-27 Thread Terry Cox
I think it's a good plan to have a continuous build system on the snapshot versions of each branch, but somebody on the team needs access to resolve issues like this and we should make sure that the notification system is configured to generate a smaller volume of warning messages. -- Terry

Build broken

2007-02-26 Thread Terry Cox
Hi, Can someone fix the continuum reporting config as well as the build, please? It seems to be spitting out multiple copies of the error mails and flooding the list. -- Terry Cox Meta-Concepts Ltd

Re: svn commit: r511833 - /incubator/servicemix/trunk/pom.xml

2007-02-26 Thread Terry Cox
change, so it is still using the original copy. You may have to stop continuum and manually clean its build folder first to see if the problem is there or in svn. Cheers, -- Terry Cox Meta-Concepts Ltd 0788 1920512

Re: svn commit: r511833 - /incubator/servicemix/trunk/pom.xml

2007-02-26 Thread Terry Cox
The problem seems due to a failure in the merge/switch. The error message is a bit obtuse, but seems to relate to switching to/from a folder which doesn't exist. It might be worth trying to back out those changes and apply them individually to see which breaks? -- Terry Cox Meta-Concepts Ltd

Re: Doc reorg

2007-02-22 Thread Terry Cox
Any ideas on how to do that ? You need more than one way to get to information as people will use different strategies to find out about a new technology. I personally like to know at a glance the scope of a project, so I preferred the original approach (and the one taken on the ActiveMQ

Re: Spring 2.0 and XBean

2007-02-21 Thread Terry Cox
Well, I'm not sure how to solve the problem in the xbean build. Just a question, but does XBean need to evolve with backward compatability to multiple Spring versions in the trunk, or should it fork to a new release path that is maintained in parallel with the associated Spring release? --

Re: Spring 2.0 and XBean

2007-02-21 Thread Terry Cox
Good idea, I think we should do a 3.0 of xbean and throwing away the spring 1.x support Let me know if you need a hand with anything. -- Terry

Re: Spring 2.0 and XBean

2007-02-17 Thread Terry Cox
why is there a spring 1.2.4 version in the classpath ? You need to remove it somehow. It appears to be coming in via the maven-xbean-plugin, which seems to import xbean-spring. I have tried over-riding the dependency on xbean spring in the plugin reference and excluding Spring, but that doesnt

Re: Spring 2.0 and XBean

2007-02-17 Thread Terry Cox
Well evidently XBean 2.8 depends on Spring 1.2.4 which I don't understand. I seem to recall that XBean used Spring 2.x so I'm rather perplexed as to why a dep on Spring 1.2.4 is defined in the POM. I'm sure Guillaume can shed some light on it, so let's wait for his response. XBean contains

Spring 2.0 and XBean

2007-02-16 Thread Terry Cox
This little error is causing me some fun: org.springframework.core.ConstantException: Field 'ISOLATION_' not found in class [org.springframework.transaction.TransactionDefinition] To explain, I am trying to use a POJO in a lightweight container and that POJO requires some injected dependencies

Build broken

2007-01-12 Thread Terry Cox
Just synchronised with HEAD and ran the build, but it is failing at ServiceMix :: Samples :: WSDL first :: SA [INFO] Determining component name for service unit wsdl-first-jsr181-su [INFO] [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO]

Re: renaming servicemix-jsr181?

2006-10-11 Thread Terry Cox
if we call it servicemix-cxf or servicemix-xfire - that still isn't very descriptive of what it does :) I've read the documentation several times and I *still* don't know what it does. :) Terry

Re: Location to host JBI components

2006-10-11 Thread Terry Cox
'd like to start a thread about where JBI components that are contributed by users should be hosted. I think that, like most other applications that have plugins, we should cover all three bases. Components maintained by the core team should be hosted locally. An open repository should exist

Enterprise features

2006-10-10 Thread Terry Cox
To operate effectively at an enterprise level, ServiceMix needs robust, predictable resilience and redundancy facilities. ServiceMix relies upon ActiveMQ to deliver this, however it is becoming clear from the number of outstanding JIRA issues on ActiveMQ 4.0.2 that it is not able to deliver on

Re: (was: Re: User Feedback Request)

2006-10-03 Thread Terry Cox
It seems most of the docs could be moved to the User's Guide, so maybe the User's Guide is not worth it. Opinions ? Perhaps the User's Guide should focus on walking through some end to end examples in detail with explanations? If it is done correctly, it should also form a QA document for

Re: SUM: Re: Changing the name of the ServiceMix project at the Codehaus

2006-09-28 Thread Terry Cox
Interesting. 'sm' words in English often have negative or derogative connotations: Smut Smack Smug Small Smarm Smash Smatter Smear Smeg Smell Smirch Smit Smite Smithereens Smog Smother Smudge I would advise against 'sm' words for that reason. Other thoughts: intermixable.org overmix.org

Re: Changing the name of the ServiceMix project at the Codehaus

2006-09-12 Thread Terry Cox
Oh i don't care about my suggestion really, just trying to get us to think outside the box. Well, here are a few that spring to mind to get the creative process rolling: InTheMix MixCentral MixDepot MixCore BeyondServiceMix MixBase Terry

Re: Changing the name of the ServiceMix project at the Codehaus

2006-09-11 Thread Terry Cox
Take it from me, most big corporate clients spend much more effort worrying about whether they like the name of the project than on evaluating the quality of the technology it contains. If they can't pronounce it or spell it, they won't use it. :) Terry

Re: Changing the name of the ServiceMix project at the Codehaus

2006-09-06 Thread Terry Cox
ServiceMixins Bit cheesy from a professional 'business technology' point of view. Terry

Re: Why do examples need maven to run

2006-08-24 Thread Terry Cox
Encouraging new developers to work within maven is probably a good thing as dependency management is a big part of the JBI world. Maven enforces good practices with respect to that and hopefully the examples will provide a cleaner path into a workable build environment. We initially

Re: Why do examples need maven to run

2006-08-24 Thread Terry Cox
However it seems to make for more brittle builds since the builds are depending on external resources being available and downlaoded. Using your own site repository helps in this respect, as does working against release versions of libraries rather than snapshots. Terry

jbi:embedded...

2006-08-08 Thread Terry Cox
When starting a ServiceMix instance, it makes sense to me to put the ActiveMQ-related config in the top level servicemix.xml and then put JMS component-related stuff in Service Units that can be deployed in the container. Only trouble is, creating a connection pool depends on commons-pool

Re: jbi:servicemix

2006-08-08 Thread Terry Cox
I have just built ServiceMix from HEAD I had just synchronised with HEAD. I've checked that I am up to date and have done another clean build of ServiceMix, but I still get the same error when I run jbi:servicemix. Terry

New examples work broken build?

2006-08-05 Thread Terry Cox
Just synchronised and performed a step1, step2 build but it seems to be failing on the bridge samples stuff: [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] [INFO] Failed to resolve artifact. Missing: -- 1)

Re: Refactor samples to use the maven jbi plugin

2006-08-01 Thread Terry Cox
Do you have an example, I'm not sure to understand. Are you talking about a SU that depends on another SU ? Well, elements in a SU can have dependencies on both component libraries and normal java libraries. SAs may contain SUs that have dependencies upon different versions of these

Re: Packaging options and archetypes

2006-07-27 Thread Terry Cox
+1 for going away from lw-container when possible. I think both archetypes and ready to run examples are necessary. Agreed. You need to understand the patterns before you can choose an archetype to apply. Terry

Re: Packaging options and archetypes

2006-07-26 Thread Terry Cox
I would recommend more worked examples in the documentation and strictly, the worked examples should be used as QA tests for snapshots so that the examples are provably in sync with the releases. If you look at the forum, nobody could build consistently until a web page was put up documenting

Re: [jira] Updated: (SM-479) Add support for relative schema imports in WSDLFlattener

2006-07-24 Thread Terry Cox
When parsing schemas for flattening a WSDL definition, the schemas are loaded with the baseUri set to null. This same problem occurs when using the Validation component to validate against a schema with imports. Hopefully this can be fixed in the same way? Terry

Re: Thoughts on restructuring

2006-07-12 Thread Terry Cox
To add my bit to this idea. I am discovering that in order to develop components, you end up with lots of dependencies back into the ServiceMix project, most especially if you wish to be able to run unit tests that instantiate a container in order to test components. This in turn means that

Problem with projectDeploy task

2006-07-08 Thread Terry Cox
Refactored the projectDeploy goal so that is can determine whether dependencies are already deployed and if so it will stop and undeploy them before redeploying This seems to have broken the jbi:projectDeploy task here. I now get: [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO]