Guillaume Nodet's blog

A press release has been published recently on the use of Fuse ESB for the Belgium Government. For french speaking people, you may find lots of informations on the project by browsing Lilian Duchêne's blog . Together with Anne Noseda, we have presented this projet at the BeJUG SOA conference . You can view the slides or download them .

Apache ServiceMix 3.1.2 has been released. Release notes are available here . This is our first official release since graduation: this means that the artifacts are available from the public repositories now (see http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/servicemix/ ).

I'm really pleased to announce that the ASF Board has approved Apache ServiceMix graduation :-) This means that ServiceMix now becomes a full Apache Top Level Project. So we will soon make our first official release of ServiceMix 3.1.2 and 3.2 coming later. This also means that the resource will be moved to their final location: the website will be moved to http://servicemix.apache.org/ and the svn repo to https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/servicemix/. In addition, I'm honored to have been voted as the Apache ServiceMix PMC Chair . The PMC (Project Management Commitee) is the group of people responsible for the project oversight, and its Chair is the interface between the Board and the project. I just want to remind people the purpose of the Apache Incubator : its main responsibility is to watch new projects at the ASF to make sure that no IP problems remains and that there is a vibrant, diverse and sustainable community around the project that goes the "Apache Way...

My company IONA provides support on Apache ServiceMix via a distribution called FUSE ESB available from the Open Source IONA site . What's in FUSE ESB right now? Well, it's roughly a distribution of ServiceMix trunk. This implies that FUSE ESB is released ahead of the Apache ServiceMix distribution (the latest release is 3.1.1, whereas FUSE ESB is based on 3.2). Why are you using the latest trunk instead of the most stable branch? Well, mostly because our customers needs some of the latest features available. We take great care of what is in our Fuse branch: we do not necessarily backport all new stuff from trunk. We may also add some specific customer needs inside our own distribution, features that are not present in the trunk version. So is that a fork? Certainly not :-) We have always supported Apache ServiceMix and we will continue to do so. But our customers have specific needs, so we may need to do custom development or have custom branches for them to fullfill t...

My ThinkPad has some serious cooling problems (it keeps shutting down when I really use it, which is kinda annoying, because this is when you really use it that you want it up and running of course) so I decided to go for a MacBook Pro. Why? Well, I'm a long time users of Windows, but for developing, I usually use cygwin for command line and all the unix good stuff. Additionally, all my team mates are Mac users, so I was quite sure I would not loose much. Now, I must admit I don't regret. Thanks to James for having pointed a few useful softwares ...

Apache ServiceMix 3.1.1 release is finally out! This release is a bug fix version with a few minor improvements.

ServiceMix provides a Service Engine for Drools , the famous Rules Engine. People often want to retrieve data from the rules and such data is usually stored in a database. Previously there was no easy way to configure a DataSource and inject it in the rules definitions. This is a small enhancement that I've just written and that will be included in next major release. So let's say you write your database access code in a simple helper object: import javax.sql.DataSource; import org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate; public class DbHelper { private DataSource dataSource; private JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate; public void setDataSource(DataSource dataSource) { this.dataSource = dataSource; this.jdbcTemplate = new JdbcTemplate(dataSource); this.jdbcTemplate.afterPropertiesSet(); } public String getSurname(String name) { String surname = (String) this.jdbcTemplate .queryForObject( "select surname from t_...