On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Having spent some time trying to get to grips with servicemix, so far all I > have achieved to date is to get drowned in an alphabet soup of acronyms, and > I still have no clear picture of exactly what servicemix does, and where > servicemix fits into the bigger picture. > > So, a few questions: > > - Can someone describe, in one paragraph, with no buzzword bingo, what > servicemix is supposed to do?
Allow you to expose services, access external services, orchestrate them being agnostic of the location and protocol. You can also do routing, transformation, etc... > - Am I right in understanding that servicemix is a container of some kind, > just like Tomcat/JBoss/Weblogic are J2EE containers? No, it's not a web container or a J2EE container, but a JBI container. JBI is another specification. > - What problem does servicemix try to solve? Integration problems. > Regards, > Graham > -- > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
