Upcoming releases roadmap

ServiceMix 4.4.0

• Upgrade of major dependencies:
  • Latest Karaf 2.2.x
  • Camel 2.8.0
  • CXF 2.4.0
  • ActiveMQ 5.5.0
• Build maintainability
  • Upgrade to JDK 1.6 and Maven 3
  • POMs
  • Features descriptors
• Documentation

For a full list of issues for the ServiceMix 4.4.0 release, have a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SMX4/fixforversion/12315742

ServiceMix 5.0.0

• Upgrade to next major versions
  • Karaf 3
  • Camel 3
  • ActiveMQ 6
  • (not sure if CXF is planning a CXF 3)
• Optional JBI support and ServiceMix Components
• Major improvements to the NMR
• BPM Layer
  • Better and deeper integration of Apache ODE WS-BPEL engine
  • Core support of a rule engine (Drools ?)
  • Support of a BPM N2 component (Activiti) - which can be (also) provided by camel-activiti
  • Plugin architecture to allow plug and play of BPM component (Bonita, Agila, jBPM, ...)
• Other containers
  • Support of EJB container (for EJB3 projects) based on OpenEJB
  • Idem but for JPA (openJPA)
• Tooling improvements:
  • New karaf shell commands
  • WebConsole for monitoring and administration