On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I fully agree with Claus and Achim. > > Karaf as the core platform is a good start, that you can extend with Fabric > and other modules (Cellar, Cave, whatever). >
Yeah I think Karaf really shines as a core container, that can be customized and tailored to your needs. Keep Karaf like that and it will go from strength to strength. > If you want a ready to use ESB based on the same layers, you can start with > JBoss Fuse or Talend ESB (both available in opensource and enterprise > version). > Yeah shows the versatility of Karaf that it can be tailored into commercial products and community versions as counter parts. So when they can do that, you can do it too. I know of companies that does that to build their own in-house OEM platform with a customized Karaf as base. > Regards > JB > > > > On 02/08/2014 08:42 AM, Claus Ibsen wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Cristiano Costantini >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> as I'm waiting for Servicemix 4.6.0 to come out because it solves some >>> problems with the version of some bundles, I was wondering if I should >>> move >>> to Karaf (2.3.3) instead on using Servicemix as the basis for my >>> application. >>> >>> In fact I use Spring, Pax Web, Camel and CXF, and I'll probably need >>> ActiveMQ if I need to implement some specific EIP. I need many >>> dependencies >>> from the servicemix bundles of wrapped dependencies, but I don't other >>> ServiceMix features, especially NMR that I understand from SMX4NMR-319 is >>> blocking release of 4.6.0. >>> >>> What you suggest me to do? >>> >>> Thank you! >>> Cristiano >> >> >> ServiceMix is a much less active project today than it used to be. >> Also most of the work that used to be at SerivceMix is now happening >> at Karaf and Camel instead. >> >> Users looking for a single download installation can still find value >> in ServiceMix. But its a bit concerning that the project does not do >> releases so often. >> >> >> In my mind ServiceMix is a dying project, and users should take that >> into account. >> >> I would point people 2 main ways. >> >> 1) >> Karaf and then install what they need such as Camel / CXF etc. >> Then you can build your own ServiceMix. >> >> 2) >> fabric8 which is has a lot more to offer. >> http://fabric8.io/ >> >> certainly for the new era of cloud and managing a lot of containers, >> and having a consistent web user interface using hawtio, and much >> more. >> >> .. and besides fabric8 you may find value in Apache Karaf Cellar, and >> possible other 3rd party projects. >> >> >> > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > [email protected] > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- Red Hat, Inc. Email: [email protected] Twitter: davsclaus Blog: http://davsclaus.com Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen Make your Camel applications look hawt, try: http://hawt.io
