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Traits in the Camel Scala DSL

When using the Java DSL for Camel, you can create a custom RouteBuilder class which defines common elements for all your routes (e.g. standardized error handling). Since you're only able to inherit from a single class, great care must be taken in which common route elements are being added to the... more »

Bryn

Tonight at 4:30 AM, our baby son, Bryn, was born ('technical specifications': 3.900 kg and 54 cm) more »

Camel async routing in ServiceMix

Until recently, servicemix-camel did not allow asynchronous interaction with the NMR. Every MessageExchange was being sent using sendSync(), causing the calling thread to wait for the MessageExchange to finish. Let's take a look at this set of Camel... more »

When JBI meets OSGi, part 1

In ServiceMix 4.2.0, you'll be able to deploy your existing JBI artifacts alongside OSGi bundles. In a mixed environment like that, you might run into the situation where you want to access a class defined in an OSGi bundle from within your existing JBI SU. To allow you to that without having to... more »

Scala on Karaf

Over the holiday season, I had a bit of spare time to work the Camel Scala DSL again. While doing this, I realized that it was a bit too hard to actually use the Scala DSL on Karaf (need to configure Maven to use both the Scala plugin and the Felix bundle plugin to build the deployable... more »

Speaking at TSSJS Europe

Next week, I'll be in Prague at TheServerSide Java Symposium-Europe to talk about Apache ServiceMix 4 and Apache Felix Karaf - we'll take a look at the architecture and design used in ServiceMix 4 and you'll learn how you can build your own container starting with Karaf and adding only those... more »