Hi Salas Congratulation on the release.
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:41 PM, S. Ali Tokmen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello to both CAMEL and JOnAS enthusiasts > > Recently, both Apache CAMEL 2.5.0 and OW2 JOnAS 5.2.0-M3 have been released. > We are therefore pleased to announce the immediate availability of the JOnAS > + CAMEL packaging, version 1.5.5. > > The main question is of course: what is this good for, anyways? > > Well, OW2 JOnAS is a Java EE certified server, with all features you would > expect from a Java EE server: centralized configuration, standardized > monitoring, robust deployment, security, clustering, ... and what's "really > special" about JOnAS is that it is fully based on OSGi (Apache Felix as OSGi > gateway, Apache iPOJO as the dynamic service component runtime). > > Apache CAMEL is a powerful integration framework based on the Enterprise > Integration Patterns (EIP). It supports most of the patterns (various > message receivers and pollers, routing, splitting, multiplexing, > asynchronism, etc.), with support for nearly 100 components (i.e., > protocols; varying from File to Web Services, Google App Engine to LDAP) and > a powerful extension mechanisms. > > The glue between those two is, as you would have guessed, OSGi: thanks to > OSGi, CAMEL can be truly integrated into JOnAS. Moreover, iPOJO adds > dynamism to this integration; you can for example use injected OSGi services > in your CAMEL routes. > > Why is CAMEL a big added value for existing Java EE platforms? The answer is > easy: if you stick to the "standard" A2A models in your Java EE > applications, you will need to implement bindings between all external > applications and your applications manually. That "manual glue" will be hard > to design (since you don't have such a powerful tool as EIPs available to > you), hard to test and most importantly hard to maintain. Thanks to CAMEL, > interconnection between applications becomes much, much easier, centralized, > standardized and robust. > > And, why is JOnAS a big added value for CAMEL? Being a Java EE server, JOnAS > supports advanced Java EE options (XA datasources, transaction management, > ...) and centralized configuration, management and deployment. Thanks to > JOnAS, you can therefore cluster your Apache CAMEL routes, easily deploy > them, have monitoring features as well as advanced options such as HTTP > thread pool optimizations. > > If you're interested, you can read more on: > http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/JOnASCamel . Both Apache CAMEL > and OW2 JOnAS are LGPL projects, therefore "free" as both in "free speech" > and "free beer". > > Please send over any questions to the [email protected] mailing list. > > And, for those who don't bother about Java EE + OSGi + EIP integration; > sorry for the noise. > > Cheers > > -- > > S. Ali Tokmen > [email protected] > > Office: +33 4 76 29 76 19 > GSM: +33 66 43 00 555 > > Bull, Architect of an Open World TM > http://www.bull.com > > > -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- FuseSource Email: [email protected] Web: http://fusesource.com Twitter: davsclaus Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/ Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen/
