Hi Gert That's a fair comment. Few weeks ago I proposed to create a Karaf "integration" distribution containing the "equivalent" of SMX.
So, I propose to move forward on the Karaf integration distribution and document the "move" in SMX for users. Thoughts ? Regards JB On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 3:44 PM Gert Vanthienen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jean-Baptiste, > > We want to start moving people away from ServiceMix and towards Karaf, > so I'm not sure we should be doing any new ServiceMix releases. It > might make more sense to spend this time and energy on the Karaf side > and provide a good alternative there. > > We could do an integration distribution with Karaf, Camel, CXF, ... > prepackaged within the Karaf community. That would probably have to > become a subproject, to avoid having the Karaf releases themselves > depend on a well-aligned set of ActiveMQ, Camel & CXF releases. That's > a discussion that we've had before on the mailing lists, so we could > revisit that idea. That does involve quite a bit of work on > maintaining the distribution and releasing it regularly, but it would > be the most convenient solution for users. > > Another solution that might work, is just to have a "cookbook" page > somewhere in the Karaf documentation where we could document what > features to install and where we could keep a list of versions of > ActiveMQ, Camel & CXF that work well together. That's probably easier > to do and would probably require less time and effort. My personal > preference would go to this second solution: working with Karaf > features for those three projects has become so much easier over the > past few years, that many users are probably already creating their > own integration solution that way. > > We should probably discuss both options further on the Karaf dev list, > but either one would give us a way to point people towards Karaf. > Instead of doing the new ServiceMix release and adding that to the > website, we point users to the first release of the Karaf integration > distribution or we point them to the cookbook page where they can > discover how to build their own integration container. In both cases, > we have taken one more step in the move to Karaf. > > Regards, > > Gert Vanthienen > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 7:19 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Before moving forward on Karaf "move", I propose two actions: > > > > 1. Rename master branch as main > > 2. Prepare SMX 8.0.0 updating dependency versions (using Karaf 4.4.x, > > Camel 3.x, ActiveMQ 5.18.x, maybe removing activiti if the update is > > not possible) > > > > Thoughts ? > > > > Regards > > JB
