Dip Your Toes in Some Camel Today

The James Strachan has put together an awesome intro to Apache Camel.



A high quality version of the screencast also available.

New FUSE Releases

It looks like the word is spreading that the FUSE has a new release out. The release includes enhancements across the FUSE family of products including, FUSE ESB, FUSE Message Broker, FUSE Services Framework and FUSE Mediation Router. The releases include significant performance and feature improvements and tighter integration between the FUSE ESB and all components of the product family.

For those of you who don't know, the FUSE family of products are IONA supported versions of several Apache projects like ActiveMQ and ServiceMix.

ServiceMix has Graduated

Congratulations to the ServiceMix project for graduating from the Incubator! Having participated in several projects that have graduated from the Apache incubator, I can attest that this is an awesome milestone to have completed.

For those of you who don't know what ServiceMix is, it's by far the BEST open source ESB available today. The components in this ESB use the JBI 1.0 spec to integrate so end users and component developers can avoid the vendor lock in that is so common in todays commercial ESB space.