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
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S. Ali Tokmen
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