I was in your shoes about a week ago.  I can offer a few words of advice.

1.  The documentation doesn't make it particularly easy (no disrepect to the
contributors who are doing MUCH fine work) but there are a lot of concepts
to get your head around regardless of how well the documentation was
structured.  If you want to get into JBI (and it is worth the effort) you
are going to have to be realistic and give yourself a week or so to go
through documentation, take a look at source etc. before it all comes
together.    

2. Read chapter 5 of the ServiceMix User Guide -
http://incubator.apache.org/servicemix/sm30ug/5-jbi.html.... Then read it
again.  Then print it out, and refer to it as you are reading other
documentation.  This provide good conceptual overview - and provides
essentials (like the fact that Endpoint is the WSDL 2 equivalent of Port in
WSDL1.1 - something which confuses the hell out of you if you don't know it
while reading other docs that use the terms interchangeably)

3. Go the the http://www.logicblaze.com/ and download Fuse.  I believe this
is a wrap around ServiceMix that has been packaged together very nicely. 
Once you've downloaded it, follow the documentation (which is of a pretty
high standard) and get the Loanbroker example going.  All of the examples
for ServiceMix didn't quite pan out on my machine, but the Fuse Loanbroker
worked straight away.

4.  This is the bit that finally pulled it all together for me..  Spend a
day tracking through the source code, the .bpel files, the .wsdl files, the
java code.  If you do this, while referring to the Chapter 5 docs from Step
2, you should be able to start following why things are the way they are
etc.

Oh, and learn Maven - well worth the effort, and you won't get very far
without it.

Good luck, M.

mart wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I started to setup some demos using CIMERO, which is very user friendly.
> Unfortunately at the moment it is not fully functional and I can't benefit
> all the features servicemix provides.
> 
> I have to say that I am a beginner with jbi, as well as the tools that are
> used with ServiceMix (maven, spring framework, activemq...).
> 
> I feel quite lost when it comes to start something: the documentation
> looks incomplete/unorganized (sorry to tell you that). I have difficulties
> to link everything: jbi component, sa, su, client api, flows,
> configuration files (spring), maven jbi plug in...
> 
> I have generated a component template using maven (jbi plugin? no
> idea...). I just do not know what I can do with this.
> 
> May somebody help me ...
> 
> cheers :)
> 
> martin
> 

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