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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.

The installation of Apache ServiceMix is as simple as uncompressing the .zip or .tar files. The next step is to start the server.

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At this point, you have Apache ServiceMix up and running and the time spent has been minimal. The following section will propose to deploy one of the sample application.

In case you get a

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

you may have some illegal characters in the path, e.g. !, % etc., that cause Java not to find the files.

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Deploy a sample application

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