Blog from December, 2010

The Camel in Action book is done.

For developers working with integration of any kind, this practical book introduces Camel and shows examples of how to use it with many supported enterprise integration patterns.
Written by the developers who wrote the Camel code, it's up to date and distills details and insights that only people deeply involved with Camel could provide.

You can read more about the book here from the publishers web site.
The book is available for sale at any major book stores on the web.

You can read about the announcements at the authors blogs:

• Jonathan Anstey
• Claus Ibsen

Happy reading.

The Apache Camel project issued this week a new patch release camel-1.6.4. We are extremely grateful to the community for the continued support and the contributions.

Development on the camel-1.x branch slowed down this year. The 1.6.4 release includes 7 issues resolved (see below). As previously announced this is the last release of the camel-1.x branch, which is no longer maintained.

• Message content redelivered asynchronously by DLC is now rereadable
• Aggregator - Exception thrown from custom aggregation strategy could cause BatchSender thread to terminate
• Updated constants in the Documentation for HTTP Component
• Merged the http chucked option support from trunk to camel 1.x branch
• Added META-INF to SQL to make it discoverable by camel-core
• Upgrade to Velocity 1.6.4
• Upgrade to CXF 2.2.9

Download Camel now and enjoy the ride!
Hadrian

During the month of October, the Apache Camel PMC conducted a survey to better understand the problems our users have, how they use Camel and what they would like to see in the upcoming releases. We cannot thank our community enough for the continued support, participation, contributions and the wonderful feedback we got. We are very happy to see the community grow, we recently had five committers join the PMC and one new committer joining the project. We hope to see at least the same level of contribution in the coming year and some of you join the Riders ranks as committers.

For those who missed that, the survey results are already attached to the 3.0 roadmap. It was interesting to see Camel used in production for a number of years, but also being recently adopted, used across a variety of industries, by companies large and small, in enterprise wide, mission critical applications. We also took note of things that need improvement like management/monitoring and better tooling.

But you'll hear more from us about all that shortly. With Christmas approaching you'll see what Claus (not Santa, but our own) has in his bag, aside for the recently finished Camel in Action book. Many thanks and congratulations to Claus and Jon for their achievement.