On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Johan Edstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since you did not get your Coffee :)
> Would you mind putting the hindrances up to the mere mortals?
>

What do you mean?

>
> On Oct 18, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Claus Ibsen wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I think the idea is really great, but I think the timing for this is
>> *not* the right spot.
>>
>> And by saying that I mean the goal of Camel 3.0 is to have a short
>> development cycle (not like 2.0 which took a long time).
>> And as a minimum (IMHO):
>> - To upgrade to JDK 1.6+,
>> - Spring 3.0+,
>> - To optimize the router internally,
>> - And to switch to slf4j logger (*)
>> - Keeping backwards compatibility as much as possible with 2.x is paramount
>>
>> Switching to slf4j instead of commons logging, allows us to use the
>> MDC logging feature.
>> This allows us to push information to the logs such as message id,
>> transaction id etc. which can more easily correlate logs, not only
>> with Camel alone, but also with other projects such as ActiveMQ, SMX
>> etc.
>>
>>
>> On top of that we now have many 3rd party projects which integrate out
>> of the box with Camel, so changing the package structure in camel-core
>> will break their integration. Which means they may not take up the
>> effort to support both Camel 2.x/3.x.
>>
>> However I do think we should take the effort and pick up the low
>> hanging fruits. I am sure there could be a couple of tangles which can
>> be identified and fixed in Camel 3.0, without breaking backwards
>> compatibility.
>>
>> I think doing this is something for Camel 4 or 5 or 6 (or whatever
>> future version it may be) when or if we change to use Scala and use
>> some other framework as foundation. There are cool stuff being
>> developed for ActiveMQ 6 which are potential as a backbone for route
>> messages. And it has a much better threading model which Camel can
>> benefit as well.
>>
>> Anyway practical works beats theory, so setting up a branch in the
>> sandbox to do experiments is a great idea.
>>
>> But its very important that we keep backwards compatibility with Camel
>> 3.0. There are so many people started using Camel 2.x now so we should
>> keep them happy with an easy upgrade path. Eg Camel 3.0 is just like
>> 2.x but now on JDK 1.6 and with X other internal upgrades.
>>
>> Okay my first cup of coffee is ready, so beware this mail was written
>> before I got "my first fix".
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I changed the thread name to [discuss].
>>>
>>> I like that idea and it's something we contemplated in the past. This will 
>>> bring back the idea of getting the dsl out of core as well.
>>>
>>> What I'd propose Christian is to add your proposal to the roadmap [1]. I 
>>> will do the same for the dsl idea. There at least 2 ideas for dsl's built 
>>> on top of the camel dsl (scheduling and debugging) that make me even more 
>>> interested in coming up with a better solution.
>>>
>>> Once we get some traction on the main refactoring ideas I'd suggest 
>>> starting one (or more) branches and start hacking, because there's not a 
>>> whole lot of time left if we want to meet our target.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Hadrian
>>>
>>> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CAMEL/Camel+3.0+-+Roadmap
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 18, 2010, at 5:43 AM, Schneider Christian wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I will have some free time in december as I am changing my employer. So I 
>>>> am planning to work a little on some architectural improvements for camel 
>>>> 3.0.0. As these things are very critical to the stability of camel I would 
>>>> like to get feedback before I start any substantial work.
>>>>
>>>> As you surely know currently camel-core is quite tangled. So it is quite 
>>>> difficult where to start. Some time ago I proposed some improvements to 
>>>> simply reduce those dependency cycles. As I now know a lot more about 
>>>> camel I think that this simple aproach will not really work. So this time 
>>>> I want to do this a little more structured. So I start with two simple 
>>>> goals:
>>>>
>>>> "The camel components should know as little as possible about camel core"
>>>>
>>>> "The classes needed to setup camel should be separate from the things 
>>>> needed at run time"
>>>>
>>>> So why should this be important? Currently components depend on camel-core 
>>>> as a whole and there are no further rules which classes the components 
>>>> should use and which classes should be private to core. Even classes from 
>>>> the impl package are needed. So this means that any refactoring we do in 
>>>> camel core could affect all components. As camel is growing steadily this 
>>>> can become quite problematic.
>>>>
>>>> So my idea would be to split camel-core into three parts:
>>>>
>>>> api, builder, impl
>>>>
>>>> These should be structured in a way that these big building blocks do not 
>>>> have cyclic dependencies. Any other cycles can be ignored in this step.
>>>>
>>>> As allowed depdencies I propose ( "->" means may use, depends on):
>>>>
>>>> * -> api
>>>> end user config -> builder
>>>> builder -> impl
>>>>
>>>> I think the first thing we should do is to discuss and reach a consensus 
>>>> about a basic architecure and rules like above. Then the next step is to 
>>>> assign each package of core to one of the basic parts. Then the next step 
>>>> is to resolve cycles between the parts.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think about these ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Christian
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Claus Ibsen
>> Apache Camel Committer
>>
>> Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen/
>> Open Source Integration: http://fusesource.com
>> Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/davsclaus
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> Johan Edstrom
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Claus Ibsen
Apache Camel Committer

Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen/
Open Source Integration: http://fusesource.com
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