Graham, I strongly suggest that you read the articles from the smx homepage and also the JBI spec (at least to understand some core concepts).
http://servicemix.apache.org/articles.html other useful links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Business_Integration http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=208 http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=JBIforSOA Regards Lars On Wednesday 04 June 2008 12:51:30 Graham Leggett wrote: > Guillaume Nodet wrote: > >> - 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... > > Ok... who/what can use/consume these services? > > >> - 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. > > So it is a container of some kind then (which was the original question)? > > Tomcat can contain Web Archives (WARs). > > JBoss (et al) can contain Enterprise Archives (EARs) amongst other things. > > The Eclipse framework contains OSGI bundles. > > The servicemix framework contains... what? > > >> - What problem does servicemix try to solve? > > > > Integration problems. > > Integration problems like...? > > Regards, > Graham > --
