JavaOne Meetup 2008
Come meet with the folks behind Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF and ServiceMix at JavaOne!
Please join us for an evening of food, drinks, conversation and open source antics at the Zebulon Cafe - (Google Map) in San Francisco on Monday, May 5, 2008 from 6-9PM. Some of the Apache committers behind these dynamic projects that will be there include Dan Kulp, Hiram Chirino, Guillaume Nodet, Rob Davies, Chris Custine and Bruce Snyder. ActiveMQ and Camel are each readying the next releases, CXF just graduated from the Incubator and the shiny, new ServiceMix 4.0 release is right around the corner. A big thanks to IONA Technologies for sponsoring this event. We hope to see you there!
In an attempt to help predict the head count, please add your name to the registration page.
A couple weeks ago I spoke at ApacheCon EU 2008 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands about Apache Camel. If you weren't able to attend, don't worry as the presentation, named Take Apache Camel for a Ride can be downloaded now. If you have any questions, please contact me as my presentations don't contain many bullet points because I tend to elaborate verbally on the topic.
We are very pleased to announce the new Camel 1.3.0 Release which includes 208 new features, improvements and bug fixes such as...
- improved Bean Integration
- improved testing via Spring Testing along with the Mock, Test, DataSet components
- browsing of endpoints via the BrowsableEndpoint with support in the JMS, List, Mock, SEDA and VM components
- improved support for message exchange patterns such as InOut for JMS
- various improvements in CXF, iBatis, Jetty, MINA components
- improved XPath and XQuery support in Spring XML and with easier namespace configuration
- default to more efficient JMS usage when working with Spring 2.5.x to avoid a previous Spring bug
- various improvements in the DSL and with error handling
- improved automatic Type Converter implementations
- method invocations now supported in EL expressions
- CXF transport API now supported in CXF component, you could leverage the power of Camel mediation in Apache CXF
New Components
- AMQP
- DataSet for easier load testing
- JCR for JSR 170 support
- List for UI and tooling integration
- Stream for working with input/output streams
- Test for easier functional testing
- XQuery for easy XQuery based transforms for Templating
New Data Formats
New Languages
New Enterprise Integration Patterns
Please see Release Notes for more details. Download it now while is hot to trot! 
Enjoy,
The Camel riders