Podcast on Apache Camel, Enterprise Integration Patterns and 1.1.0 release

I had the pleasure to be interviewed by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions about Apache Camel recently. You can listen to the podcast or read the online transcript. Apologies in advance for any rambling :) - I did enjoy it though.

In related Camel news, the Camel 1.1.0 Release has been cut and voted; its just about to move to the maven repo & Apache mirror system any moment now. Cool beans! It contains numerous new features...

• hugely improved Bean Integration to work nicely with beans and Camel; making Camel even less intrusive
• improved Spring XML support using JAXB2 and code-generating a nice XML Schema
• new Enterprise Integration Patterns like Aggregator, Throttler, Delayer
• new Languages Supported such as EL and OGNL
• new Components like VM, Event, Log, Validation, Jing, MSV
• new Examples such as Spring Example, ETL Example and BAM
• improved distributed testing with via the Mock component
• new Camel Maven Plugin for easier running of Camel routes and Examples in Maven

Incidentally I really love the new Visualisation plugin that can be easily integrated into your maven site generation as this example shows.