Guillaume Nodet's blog

ApacheCon was really interesting this year! Recently, a lot of people have expressed a real interest in ServiceMix Kernel , our generic OSGi distribution for server side applications. We've been discussing moving this subproject into Apache Felix for several reasons: raise the visibility and awareness on ServiceMix Kernel attract a broader community Several Apache projects are planning to use ServiceMix Kernel as their container: this includes Apache James , Apache Directory and Apache ActiveMQ . The Apache Sling community is also willing to contribute to this effort along with some other groups like the OPS4J project. During this discussion, a name as been proposed by Jamie Goodyear: Apache Karaf . A carafe is a small container used for serving wine and other drinks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carafe). In similarity to the name the Kernel allows applications to be more easily handled, and improves their characteristics (much like a bottle of wine left to breath in a dec...

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...