Remember Me?

April, Friday the 13th, 2007 was my last entry. No, Jason did not get me, but project and personal demands combined to decapitate my spare time. That made it difficult to continue my investigation of Fuse. I apologize for the absence and hope to make a more regular appearance in the blogosphere in the future.

I also want to apologize to those at ServiceMix/Iona. I got some positive feed back from them on the entries and a request to add the content to their site but the same demands interfered with that effort. At this point Fuse is on a new release so rather than post obsolete info on their site I'll eventually try to update my efforts here. If this evolves into something useful I'll certainly make the effort to port it to their more accessible address on the web.

At any rate the project I was involved with used Mule as the ESB. There are some lessons learned there that I'll try to share in the future but I really want to get back to Fuse and ServiceMix. This is because I felt there was a lot that, while I got it to work, I just did not understand. So for the immediate future that is what I'll be doing, trying to understand.

In order to understand I will not be going through a tutorial. In tutorials you download, you click what they tell you, you enter a command and everything works. Well, as indicated with my Fuse tutorial entries, it doesn't always go that smoothly but even though I hit some bumps and figured somethings out what I learned was more about what to click then about WHY you should click it.

So this time I'm not doing a tutorial and I'm not starting with Fuse. I'm going to start with ServiceMix and my own use case and build everything from the ground up. This way the only way I can progress is to understand what I'm doing rather than mechanically moving on to the next click.

So here's the roadmap:

1. ServiceMix: What I Did Not Understand
2. ServiceMix: The Use Case & What You Need to Implement It
3. ServiceMix: Behavior Configuration
4. ServiceMix: The POJO (Part 1)
5. ServiceMix: The POJO (Part 2)
6. ServiceMix: Behavior Configuration (Revisited)
   
7. ServiceMix: Deployment Configuration
8. ServiceMix: The Test Client (Part 1)
9. ServiceMix: The Test Client (Part 2)
   
10. ServiceMix: When Things Go Wrong

Okay, that's where we're going. Of course I reserve the right to swerve wildly off the road and into a ditch along the way. But, that's the point. When your sitting in the ditch, that's when you find out how to work a winch.