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