November 11th, 2008 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
OSGi could mean a big boost for middleware innovation.Current application servers all try to be as complete as possible, so they rank high in industry analyst’ charts, like the one you see here. Being up there in the right top corner is what it’s all about. So they all include everything and the kitchen sink, [...]
October 20th, 2008 | by akoelewijn | published in soa
Matt Raible just wrote a post describing how LinkedIn is using OSGi to build it’s next generation SOA architecture. It’s nice to see that LinkedIn is moving into this direction as i just had the same idea today.
Gert vanthienen explained to me how to add a maven repository in ServiceMix, so you can easily install [...]
October 19th, 2008 | by akoelewijn | published in java, soa
Here’s a simple example how you can create a Camel Route using it’s DSL, and deploy it as an OSGi bundle in the ServiceMix Kernel.
I’ll start with the java class that builds the camel routes. The following class, nl.iteye.camelbundle1.FileRouteBuilder configures a route that will copy any file from /tmp/src to /tmp/dest.
package nl.iteye.camelbundle1;
import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
public [...]
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