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Apache ServiceMix Kernel 1.0.0 has just been released. Apache ServiceMix Kernel is a small OSGi based runtime which provides a lightweight container onto which various bundles can be deployed. Amongst the list of supported features, Apache ServiceMix Kernel supports: hot deployment of OSGi bundles, exploded bundles or custom artifacts (spring xml configuration files support is provided) services configuration stored as property files are monitored and provided as standard OSGi configurations a centralized logging back end supported by Log4J, ServiceMix Kernel supports a number of different APIs (JDK 1.4, JCL, SLF4J, Avalon, Tomcat, OSGi) provisioning of libraries or applications can be done using simple commands via simple xml descriptors native OS integration as a service so that the lifecycle will be bound to your Operating System. an extensible shell console to manage services, applications and libraries operations on the console can be done remotely via a secured and encrypted chan...

I'll just quote Rob 's blog entry : Progress completed its acquisition of IONA Technologies last Friday. The FUSE open source group will be running as its own business unit as part of the Progress Software Corporation - so we are still operating as before - but with considerably more investment. Progress saw the number and quality of enterprise customers we have using our integration products, saw that we consistently met and exceeded our sales targets and realized our potential to grow significantly. So although we currently employee a lot of open source developers - we will be recruiting even more - and have some exciting new software projects in development for release in 2009 :)

I'd like to talk a bit about third party dependencies in ServiceMix 4. ServiceMix 4 is based on OSGi and when deploying applications to it, you have two choices: use the JBI packaging use the OSGi packaging The first solution is a good thing if you want to abide by the JBI specification completely or if you want to use non OSGi aware components. However, you'll come into the known limitations of the JBI packaging with respect to classloaders: the JBI specification is quite limited in this area. The second solution is more powerful as, in addition to being able to leverage the OSGi classloader mechanisms, you'll also be able to access the OSGi registry, thus registering or retrieving services in the registry. However, when using the OSGi packaging, you need to deal with third party dependencies. OSGi is becoming more and more popular, so more and more projects are now distributing the jars as native OSGi bundles. But not all have converted to OSGi yet. And of course, you...

I found Fantastic Contraption a small, but very fun game to play. Here is my solution to the last free level. Enjoy!

Rod Biresch has posted a nice blog post about what's new in ServiceMix 4.x . Definitely worth a read!