Hello, Sometime ago I used ServiceMix 3.x. In my opinion ServiceMix documentation never was the best one. But when idea of ServiceMix came I am really confused - how to use it, _what are best practices_ etc. For example in ServiceMix the JMS flow also made it possible to create a cluster of ESB containers over which you could distribute the endpoints used in an application. In ServiceMix one can accomplish similar results using hard wired JMS endpoints as part of ones flow. But I far as I understand SM3 allowed users to gain a level of persistence and failure tolerance out of their applications but SM4 does not have such "transparent clustering feature" and applications are much more concerned about this.
I've read that some components from SM3 should not be used in SM4, some should be used in different way, some can be packaged as OSGi bundles but in some cases this is not needed. I also have read the migration guide on FUSE pages. But I did not found the guide which one could read and saw that such thing should be in such a way, that features of SM4 are..., which are new components and which of them are depreciated, what is architecture of SM4... Maybe I am such confused because I used to features and how to do's in ServiceMix 3.x. Now SM4... I would like use it, but... sorry - documentation is such depreciated, misleading in many places. I thought sometime ago that because SM was in incubation phase of Apache process documentation and other things will be of such quality as for example Spring documentation, Hibernate documentation. Being software architect it is very difficult to say: choose ServiceMix solution... My personally I don't even sure if SM4 will expand and it will be in heavy development because interest in it never will be high when people will not know how to use it. I would like to help making documentation but I can't because I myself don't know how to use SM4 or even if SM4 is already finished or still in development. Sorry for such my words. I like ServiceMix idea and I would like use it and propagate it through my friends. So... please tell me from what source I could know about ServiceMix 4.x as much as one can know. And what to do to make SM web page, documentation, tutorials to be better, much better. I was thinking a lot if this is right place to write such words because as I mentioned earlier it is not difficult to cirtisize. But my goal was to know where is good documentation about SM4, tutorials, _web page_ etc and to tell someone what common users think about this things. If someone heard about ESB and is fascinated about it, I afraid that he/she would not decide to use ServiceMix because of lack of good documentation there is such a curve to start use it that he/she will give up. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ServiceMix-4---documentation-tp21452910p21452910.html Sent from the ServiceMix - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
