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At this time you have one option to get the software. The fastest and easiest way is to get the binary directly from the Apache site. Since this article is intended to help you to have Apache ServiceMix up and running in the fastest way only the binary download will be covered at this time.

Prerequisites

Although this installation path is the fastest one, still you will need to install some software before installing ServiceMix.

J2SE 1.5

ServiceMix requires a Java 5 environment to run. Refer to http://java.sun.com for details on how to download and install J2SE 1.5.

Download binaries

Depending on the platform you plan to install and run Apache ServiceMix you will select the appropriate installation image. Open a Web browser and access the following URL, there you will find the available packages for download (binaries and source code).

http://incubator.apache.org/servicemix/download.html

Select the file compression format compatible with your system (zip, tar.gz) by clicking directly on the link, download it and expand the binary to your hard drive in a new directory; for example in z:\servicemix - from now on this directory will be referenced as <servicemix_home>. Please remember the restrictions concerning illegal characters in Java paths, e.g. !, % etc.

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