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You can use either Apache ServiceMix or Apache Karaf as the starting point for creating a custom distribution, it shouldn't make that much of a difference. ServiceMix itself is a custom distribution of Karaf too, so you can use the same technique to build a custom distribution on top of ServiceMix as well. If you only want to add things to an existing ServiceMix distribution, starting with that ServiceMix distribution probably makes more sense. If you want an assembly similar to ServiceMix, but with some removals as well, it might be easier to start with Karaf and then only add those things you really want. In the latter case, you can always take a peek at the ServiceMix Features codebase, where our assembly is built, to get a more elaborate example of such a custom distribution or even use that code as the starting base for your own distro. Regards, Gert Vanthienen On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:18 AM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> wrote: > Jean-Baptiste, > > Thanks for the response. I think what you're implying is that instead of > using servicemix as my base, I should use karaf as my base and even add > servicemix on top of that. > > So, assuming I want to start with the minimal configuration, I probably > then need to create a project that lists out all of those dependencies, and > then add in the necessary assembly calls, no? I'm assuming I could still > use the source for servicemix as this base then, correct? > > John > > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> take a look on Karaf documentation to create custom distribution: >> >> http://karaf.apache.org/**manual/latest-2.3.x/**developers-guide/custom-** >> distribution.html<http://karaf.apache.org/manual/latest-2.3.x/developers-guide/custom-distribution.html> >> >> ServiceMix is based on Karaf, and it's a custom distribution of Karaf. >> >> Regards >> JB >> >> >> On 07/21/2013 04:45 PM, John D. Ament wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm looking to create a redistributable ESB for our internal product based >>> on servicemix. The idea is to create a preinstalled, predeployed >>> application that can simply be started up (and have a little bit of >>> configuration applied to point to things like our main app). >>> >>> As a result, I want to be able to preinstall things like our own OSGi >>> bundles as well as other bundles that we know we want installed (but >>> aren't >>> installed by default in SMX). I've done things like this in the past with >>> JBoss (where we predeploy our app to the AS7 runtime), and was curious how >>> to do it with servicemix? I'm assuming I can use a maven assembly, based >>> on the assemblies I saw here: >>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/**asf/servicemix/smx4/features/** >>> trunk/assemblies/<http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/servicemix/smx4/features/trunk/assemblies/> >>> >>> I also noticed in this pom file, you use a karaf plugin. Does this >>> preinstall these features? >>> >>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/**asf/servicemix/smx4/features/** >>> trunk/assemblies/apache-**servicemix-minimal/pom.xml<http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/servicemix/smx4/features/trunk/assemblies/apache-servicemix-minimal/pom.xml> >>> >>> Thanks for any feedback, >>> >>> John >>> >>> >> -- >> Jean-Baptiste Onofré >> [email protected] >> http://blog.nanthrax.net >> Talend - http://www.talend.com >>
