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SOA Made Easy with Open Source Apache Camel

XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and software firms to create an abundance of protocols
By Robert Davies, James Strachan
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February 25, 2008 06:30 AM EST
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Over the last several years, integration technology has been growing by leaps and bounds. The XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and software firms to create an abundance of protocols, adaptors, transports, containers, standards, best practices...you name it.

The bits and bytes that are now available are undeniably sophisticated, diverse, and capable of almost anything, but many of the packages are built from the technology up and leave the job of how to use the capabilities effectively as an exercise for the reader.

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Rob Davies, director of open source development at IONA, has more than 20 years of experience developing high-performance distributed enterprise systems and products for telecom and finance corporations. He is responsible for leading the development of IONA's FUSE family of open source products, which are based on leading projects at the Apache Software Foundation. Rob is a founder of the Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ServiceMix and Apache Camel projects. Prior to joining IONA, Rob served as the founder and vice president of product development at LogicBlaze, which was acquired by IONA in 2007. Previously, Rob served as founder and CTO of integration software developer SpiritSoft.

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James Strachan, technical director at IONA, is responsible for helping the Company provide open source offerings for organizations requiring secure, high-performance distributed systems and integration solutions. He is heavily involved in the open source community, and has co-founded several Apache projects, including ActiveMQ, Camel, Geronimo and ServiceMix. He also created the "Groovy" scripting language and additional open source projects such as dom4j, jaxen and Jelly. Prior to joining IONA, James spent more than 20 years in enterprise software development. Previously, James co-founded LogicBlaze, Inc., an enterprise open source company acquired by IONA. Prior to that, he founded SpiritSoft, Inc., a company providing enterprise Java middleware services.

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