1. Quick start
If you are in a hurry to have Apache ServiceMix up and running right away, this article will provide you with some basic steps for downloading, building (when needed) and running the server in no time. This is clearly not a complete guide so you may want to check the other links in the Apache ServiceMix v3.0 - User's Guide main section for further information.
All you need is 5 to 10 minutes and to follow these basic steps.
Background
Apache ServiceMix is a JBI (Java Business Integration, JSR 208) implementation that is completely open source and under the Apache License. ServiceMix v3.0 is the first official release of the JBI container by the Apache Software Foundation.
Getting the software
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 up and running in the fastest way only the binary download will be covered at this time.
Start the server
Problems starting the Server
- Port 1099 already in use: that means that another application or even another ServiceMix instance has already taken that port. Please make sure that no other ServiceMix instance is running or use netstat -a to figure out which other application is using that port. Keep in mind that some tests start an in-memory ServiceMix instance which also use this port. If all else fail then try to restart your computer. If the port has to be changed to avoid a conflict the edit <SERVICEMIX_HOME>/conf/servicemix.properties file and adjust the rmi.port.
Deploy a sample application
While you will learn in the remainder of this guide how to create and package a JBI application, we will just use the pre-built packaging for now.
1. In ServiceMix 3.2.1 and above this step is done automatically when starting ServiceMix.
2. This requires at least ServiceMix 3.0
Open another command line console in the <servicemix_home> directory and run the following commands in Windows
respectively Linux:
These commands will:
- install the servicemix-shared Shared Library
- install the servicemix-http and servicemix-jsr181 JBI components
ServiceMix deploy and install directories are relative to the directory where ServiceMix was started. Be sure to start it from the root dir using the bin/servicemix command. If you run it from the bin dir, the previous commands will fail and you would have to copy the components to the bin/install and bin/deploy folders.
You should see the following on the command line console:
Now deploy a JBI Service Assembly which exposes a service over HTTP/SOAP
In ServiceMix 3.2.1 and above the deploy directory has been replaced by hotdeploy. Modify the commands accordingly.
Windows:
Linux:
You should see the following on the command line console:
Now, open a web browser to the following location:
http://localhost:8192/PersonService/main.wsdl
You should see the WSDL of the web service that has just deployed!
Now, open a web browser and point it to the following location: [servicemix_home]/examples/wsdl-first/client.html. Then, click on the SEND button to see the web service response.
If your version of ServiceMix is older than 3.0.1, and you are using Internet Explorer, you will have to comment out the following line in the client.html web page.
This has been be fixed in the 3.1 release.
Summary
This article showed you how simple it is to have Apache ServiceMix 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 Web Service in less than five minutes.