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Issue 3 May 2009

In this Issue:

Spotlight

Going to Java One—Dude, Where’s My T-shirt??

Our community members are very important to us, and we want to make sure you are given the opportunity to own a limited edition, “FUSE-Open Integration Software that Rocks” t-shirt. Its quick and easy: all you need to do is print out the coupon, fill in the appropriate information and bring it to our booth #124. Only 200 t-shirts will be reserved, so act quickly as quantities are limited.

Members of the FUSE team will be speaking at several sessions. Come hear Rob Davies speak at the Balancing Java Message Service Performance with Reliability and Guillaume Nodet speak at the OSGi and the Enterprise Service Bus: Friend or Foe session. Each session is filled with valuable information that you can’t afford to miss. Are you still undecided about attending JavaOne?? Did you know that the expo hall is free?? This is a great opportunity to attend JavaOne and visit with members of the FUSE team.

Product Updates

New FUSE ESB 4.1.0

Check out the features, improvements, and bug fixes such as full JBI 1.0 support including Mbean and Ant tasks. We’ve also updated clustering over JMS, master-slave failover, transactions in OSGi, and hot-deployment of features.

FUSE Services Framework 2.2.0

New JAX-RS 1.0 implementations for RESTful services development, RESTful client API, and Security Interoperability with WS-SecureConversation, WS-SecurityPolicy, and WS-Trust.

FUSE Mediation Router 1.6.0.0

We’ve included Freemarker Component, Claim check integration pattern, and OSGi improvements and dozens of bug fixes.

If you would like to see other use cases included in our next release, please provide us with your feedback in our “FUSE Forums”/forums.

NEW LEARNING GUIDES AVAILABLE

Need to know more about framework, inceptors, bindings, transports, message broker and how to work with the Logisticx Demo? We’ve updated several of our guides to help you do just that.

Company News

Taking SOA Where No SOA Has Gone Before

EbizQ interviews Debbie Moynihan and ask’s “Is open source becoming the norm in the emerging generation of SOA solutions?”

Sabre Holdings Standardizes on the FUSE Open Source ESB

And why open source? Wiseman, CTO at Sabre, noted that with an open source ESB Sabre is able to access the source code and is protected against vendor lock-in. Moreover, with Progress FUSE, the company also is assured its open source ESB choice will adhere to industry standards.

Read the Sabre Holdings Case Study

Sabre Holdings, the world’s largest provider of travel products and technology solutions, processes over a half billion travel transactions a day and needed a system that would keep pace with the dynamic travel industry. It choose FUSE for its scalability, reliability, and flexibility.

New White Paper Now Available – Large-Scale Deployments with ServiceMix 4

The paper provides a real-world, customer example of using ServiceMix 4 in a large, distributed environment. To help the development of extremely large deployments, the FUSE team is sharing the experiences, sample code, and the results of a specific application at a large retailer with over 2000 stores throughout 6 European countries.

Apache Camel: Integration Nirvana

Camel was created with the intention of addressing enterprise integration patterns: designing, building and deploying messaging solutions.

Specifying WS-SecurityPolicy, RM, Policy in a WSDL file

Apache CXF 2.2 is the third major release of CXF project. This release supports WS-SecurityPolicy and partially supports WS-Trust. WS-SecurityPolicy is a very helpful and easier way of specifying.

Webinars and Training

Best Practices Webinar: Create and Integrate Open Source Process Portals

Join Progress FUSE and Bluenog and hear how you can create and integrate process portals that leverage open source software to minimize your costs and maximize your flexibility. June 18th, 1:00PM EST, Register here.

h3. Getting Started with FUSE ESB 4

Join this successful series for a friendly format to help you use FUSE. Register today for a one-hour tutorial, interactive demo, live Q&A, and much more! June 30th, 1:00PM EST, Register here. June 30th, 10:00AM GMT, Register here.

FUSE Integration Designer 1.2

Register for this live webinar and get a glimpse of the new FUSE Integration Designer 1.2, along with a collection of Eclipse tools to assist you in the design and construction of integration solutions. July 14th, 1:00PM EST, Register here. July 14th, 11:00PM GMT, Register here.

h3. New Webinar Archives Available

  • Overview of OSGi Enterprise – This webinar describes the new enterprise capabilities of the OSGi framework and outlines the future of what is quickly becoming the most important standard in Java today. Speaker: Eric Newcomer works in the CTO Office of Progress Software, focusing on OSGi. He has been serving as co-chair of the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group since it started in January 2007 and has more than 30 years of experience in enterprise applications.
  • Large-scale Deployments Using ServiceMix 4 – Learn how a large retail company with a growing number of shops and a growing palette of goods replaced an outdated, end-of-day batch file transfer pattern with an architecture that would allow real time processing. This webinar also talks about why proper design and implementation are only half the battle. Speaker: Andreas Gies is a Principal Architect at Progress® FUSE™—Open Source Center of Competence, working with middleware like MOMs, CORBA, J2EE, WS, and ESBs since 2002.

Public and On-Site Training

Progress FUSE training packages are designed to make your team productive and self-sufficient as quickly as possible. All courses are conducted in an open, flexible workshop setting that will familiarize a small group of people with the Progress FUSE product line and allow them to design and deliver a working prototype by the end of each training session.

The Progress FUSE team hosts public Apache ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, CXF, and Camel training courses that are open to all developers and architects. To view upcoming public training workshops in a city near you, Click here

Virtual Classroom Training Now Available

You can now enjoy the benefits of classroom training without the expense and hassle of travel. Our experienced instructors/consultants use state of the art web technologies—including web conferencing, shared desktop, conference calling facilities and IRC channels—to deliver training live right to your location.

Sign up now for Developer Training for ServiceMix 4.x with Camel and learn how to

  • Implement enterprise integration patterns (EIPs) using Apache Camel.
  • Deploy them in FUSE ESB 4, a commercially supported distribution of Apache ServiceMix 4.

Community Updates & Events

Lead the way

It’s always great when our community members take the time and contribute something that will help others build better applications. Jos Dirksen who is a FUSE community member has written a great paper that illustrates a complete application, showing how you can integrate a MTOM-enabled web service and Spring/JPA application using FUSE components.

ASF Celebrating a Decade of Open Source Leadership

Exactly ten years ago, the highly dedicated members of the Apache Group decided to secure the future of the Apache HTTP Server by forming The Apache Software Foundation.

How Cool—NASA Makes Space for Open Source Software

The space shuttle Atlantis launched last week on its way to the final Hubble telescope repair mission. NASA says it has four main reasons for promoting the use and development of open source software.

Read what the FUSE team is saying about the newly released FUSE Integration Designer.

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