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Background

Apache ServiceMix Runtime Kernel is a small and lightweight OSGi based runtime. This provides a small lightweight container onto which various bundles can be deployed.

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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 Runtime Kernel up and running in the fastest way only the binary download will be covered at this time.

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

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

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While you will learn in the remainder of this guide how to use and leverage Apache ServiceMix RuntimeKernel, we will just use the pre-built packaging for now.

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This document showed you how simple it is to have Apache ServiceMix Runtime Kernel up and running. The overall time for getting the server running should be less than five minutes if you have the prerequisite (Java 1.5) already installed. Additionally, this article also showed you how to deploy and test a simple Camel application in less than five minutes.

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