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
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