CamelOne and Scala eXchange were awesome!

Its been a busy few weeks lately! 3 weeks ago we had CamelOne which was a really great conference; one of the best I've been to for a while. Great talks & conversations - loads of energy around the Apache Camel community. I'm already looking forward to the next one! We should have the various presentations from it online.

I got the chance to demo the new beta of Fuse IDE which is coming out soon; its packed with some really awesome features for working with ActiveMQ, Camel and ServiceMix. We're hard at work getting that ready...

Then yesterday I had the pleasure of giving the day 2 keynote at Scala eXchange in London. I had heaps of fun, met loads of the Scala folks I've only met online before (including Martin, finally!) & even managed to get a few laughs in my talk (mostly at JSPs expense I think :). It was a very similar conference to CamelOne in many ways; heaps of fun, loads of energy & passion around and lots of fun was had by all.

My keynote was on the Scalate template engine; there's details here or go straight to the slides or video. The samples I used in the talk are in github.

CamelOne, Fuse IDE, Fuse Fabric, oh my...

I've been way too busy to blog for a while; will try to do better going forward.

A little while ago we released the GA version of Fuse IDE; folks seem to really like it. If you use Apache Camel I highly recommend you try it out - also check out Jon's recent article on it.

Since then we've been working hard on a bunch of cool new features for it; we'll be releasing the 1.2 beta next month & its gonna rock even more :). I'm hoping to demo some of the newer features of Fuse IDE in my keynote at next weeks CamelOne conference.

In parallel we've been working hard on Fuse Fabric, open source software for weaving your application containers into an easy to configure, provision and manage system. Have a browse of the user guide if you want to know more.

Hopefully see you in Washington DC at CamelOne next week?

speaking at QCon, TSSJS, CamelOne, Scala eXchange, oh my

I've a fairly busy speaking time coming up in the next couple of months. Here's my current schedule...

• QCon London, Wednesday 9th March @ 15:35 I'll be presenting "Take a Ride on Camel"
• TSSJS Vegas,  Thursday 17th March @ 10:00 "Apache Camel: Tales from the Leading Camel Experts" along with Claus Ibsen. I think I'm gonna be on the Other languages on the JVM panel at 3:55pm which sounds fun too
• CamelOne in DC, May 24th not exactly sure yet when I'll be speaking but expect a talk or two and a demo of Fuse IDE at least :). I'll also be trying to get my copy of Enterprise Integration Patterns and Camel in Action signed by the authors - you're most welcome to try too! :)
• Skillsmatter Scala eXchange in London Wed 15th-16th June.

More details of other FuseSource folks speaking here. If you're going to be at any of these conferences it'd be good to meet up and say hi!

Scalate 1.4.0 Released

The Scalate team is pleased to announce the availability of Scalate 1.4.0

Scalate is a Scala 2.8.1 based template engine which can be used stand alone, with servlets or web frameworks like JAXRS, Lift or Play or in integration frameworks like Apache Camel.

The following template languages are supported through the same common API:

• Ssp which is like a Scala version of Velocity, JSP or Erb from Rails
• Scaml which is a Scala dialect of Haml for very DRY markup along with the Jade syntax
• Mustache which is a Scala dialect of Mustache for logic-less templates which also work inside the browser using mustache.js

All expressions inside Ssp, Scaml and Jade benefit from the full power and expressiveness of Scala plus they are typesafe and checked at edit/compile time to ensure you don't leave any mistakes in your templates.

Scalate 1.4.0 Highlights

• Upgraded to Scala 2.8.1
• Added new SBT plugins for precompiling templates and site generation
• Site generation is now available in the scalate command line tool and shell and it alsonow supports a simpler directory layout.
• Added pygmentize, css, and cdata filters
• Added Textile support and filters
• Mustache can now be used for creating layouts and refer to parts of the generated template by navigating the html section.
• Mustache automatically unwraps Option types.
• Improved OSGi support

For more detail see the Full Change Log

Feedback is always welcome!

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Wanna try our Apache Camel developer tools for Enterprise Integration Patterns?

When I first created Apache Camel one of my design goals was to let folks describe the Enterprise Integration Patterns as easily as possible using concise and declarative domain specific languages instead of reams of confusing opaque bean configurations.  So whichever the developer prefers, a DSL in Java, XML, Scala, Groovy, Ruby etc. It was always part of the plan to actually have a visual domain specific language too and we've finally created one.

We're just starting the public beta of Fuse IDE for Camel, our Eclipse tool suite that lets you visually create, edit and configure Enterprise Integration Patterns easily using Apache Camel and its huge selection of patterns and components.

If you use Apache Camel or have always meant to give it a try then please install it, take it for a spin and see what you think. We'd love to hear your feedback on the tool & how we can improve it!

We've lots of things planned for the tool; this is just the beginning...

Camel in Action is complete!

Just in time for Christmas, my fellow FuseSource colleages Claus and Jon have finished their excellent book, Camel in Action. Congratulations guys!

Its a great read & highly recommended if you have integration problems you want to solve with the best of breed open source solutions.

There's more history and background in Claus's post or to quote from Jon's post...

So we did it. Camel in Action is headed to the press! Time for beers and all that, but first a little blog post :)

I had to actually search through my mail to find out when I started on this project. Turns out I got involved mid September 2009 which puts the time in about 15 months. Claus started before that so his month count is higher - poor guy ;) So it was a pretty big chunk of time for both of us but not too bad for a technical book I'm told.

We set out to create something that the growing Apache Camelcommunity needed badly - a great reference for newbies and experts alike. I'd like to think we accomplished that goal. Seems the early access readers agree too.

Thanks to all who were involved in producing this book. We had tons of very helpful reviewers, Manning staff, and even multiple foreword writers - there were a lot of people involved in creating this other than Claus or myself. Of course, we officially thanked the folks involved in the acknowledgements section so be sure to look there if you helped out :)

I have yet to see anything other than a PDF copy of the book (which should be released tomorrow) so I'm really looking forward to when the print copies start showing up in 10 days!

Also, feel free to use the "camel50" code for 50% off when ordering through http://manning.com/CamelinAction

Festive beers to both of you! :) 

Scala is awesome!

I got caught unawares by Debbie from FuseSource with her video camera and she managed to get me rambling about programming languages and what I thought of Scala.

The sound is a bit quiet you might need to turn it up when Debbie's not talking :)

Here's the video or try it embedded below:

FuseSource has launched!

Rob has explained the background along with Larry's interview and Dana's podcast much better than I could have.

From a personal perspective I'm really excited about the future of FuseSource; we're growing fast, have some amazing customers & a great team including the folks who created Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel and Apache ServiceMix and now we have autonomy so we can stay nimble & fast like a startup while we innovate and iterate to help our customers solve their integration problems with open source; all the while having the security of being backed by a large company. This is gonna be fun! :)

Scalate 1.3 Released

The Scalate team is pleased to announce the availability of Scalate 1.3.

Scalate is a Scala 2.8 based template engine which can be used stand alone, with servlets or web frameworks like JAXRS, Lift or Play or in integration frameworks like Apache Camel.

The following template languages are supported through the same common API:

• Ssp which is like a Scala version of Velocity, JSP or Erb from Rails
• Scaml which is a Scala dialect of Haml for very DRY markup along with theJade syntax
• Mustache which is a Scala dialect of Mustache for logic-less templates which also work inside the browser using mustache.js

All expressions inside Ssp, Scaml and Jade benefit from the full power and expressiveness of Scala plus they are typesafe and checked at edit/compile time to ensure you don't leave any mistakes in your templates.

Scalate 1.3 Highlights

• Jade template syntax is now supported which is a dialect of Haml or Scaml
• New Servlet Filter which allows more flexible mapping of templates in a web application. For example you can have the request /foo.xml automatically bound to /foo.xml.ssp if the template exists letting you easily implement views without requiring a controller or routing in your MVC layer.
• JSP Converter helps you migrate your existing JSP web application across to Scalate
• HTML Converter lets you migrate your existing HTML files easily to Scaml orJade for extra DRY markup
• DRY template imports, values and logic thanks to Scalate Package objects which allow imports, values and methods to be shared across some or all of your templates to reduce noise inside your templates.
• Site Generator lets you generate static or dynamic websites using templates and/or wiki markup together with exporting wiki content from Confluence wikis to migrate to using git/svn as your wiki content repository. You can also use a common bootstrap approach now across both static website generation and web applications - such as to configure wiki macros in a canonical way. We now eat our own dog food and generate this site using Scalate.
• More filters and pipelines supported such as confluence as well as the existing markdown which are particularly useful for website generation (static or semi-static).
• The Scalate Tool now comes with a full interactive shell with full tab completion to make it easier to use the tool either for ad hoc or interactive shell use.

For more detail see the Full Change Log

Feedback is always welcome!

Scalate 1.2 Released

The Scalate team is pleased to announce the availability of Scalate 1.2.

Scalate is a Scala 2.8 based template engine which can be used stand alone, with servlets or web frameworks like JAXRS, http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/lift.html">Lift or Play or in integration frameworks like Apache Camel.

The following template languages are supported through the same common API:

• Ssp which is like a Scala version of Velocity, JSP or Erb from Rails
• Scaml which is a Scala dialect of Haml for very DRY markup
• Mustache which is a Scala dialect of Mustache for logic-less templates which also work inside the browser using mustache.js

All expressions inside Ssp and Scaml benefit from the full power and expressiveness of Scala plus they are typesafe and checked at edit/compile time to ensure you don’t leave any mistakes in your templates.

Scalate 1.2 Highlights

• Scalate now supports the Mustache template language which is a Scala dialect of Mustache for logic-less templates which also work inside the browser using mustache.js. Support for Mustache uses the same common Scalate API so it works with all the existing Scalate adapters such as servlets, JAXRS, http://scalate.fusesource.org/documentation/lift.html">Lift or Play and Apache Camel
• Scalate is now built on top of Scala 2.8.0 final release
• Scuery for jQuery style transformation of HTML or XHTML using CSS3 selectors
• the console can be more easily reused in your application without using WAR overlays and templates can be loaded via the classloader to help make more modular web applications without relying on WAR overlays
• improvements in associating different template languages to files/URIs/strings/streams in a more flexible API
• various improvements in the accuracy of the mapping of scala compiler errors to positions in the template source file which are then shown and linked in the console

For more detail see the Full Change Log

Feedback is always welcome!

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FUSE Community Day in Frankfurt May 25th

Along with Claus, Rob and others, I'll be speaking at the next FUSE community day. If you're in the area please do pop along and say hi.

It will be held on May 25th 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany. We start at 9:00 am and have a full packed day with great speakers.
At 4:30 pm its time for "evaluation" where you can join us for a drink and a "one-on-one" chat with the many great minds at FUSE and network/mingle with the other participants.

You can see the agenda which is listed on the FUSE site.

Get the latest news on Apache ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, CXF, Camel.

Hear from committers, founders like Rob Davies, James Strachan and Claus Ibsen and users who have successfully implemented Apache in projects.

Meet and network with peers at this free educational community day.

Date
25th of May

Time
9:00AM to 4:30PM

Location
Radisson Blu Hotel, Franklinstrasse 65, 60486 Frankfurt am Main

Who Should Attend
Developers, architects, engineers and IT managers

How to register
Use this link

Scalate 1.1 Released

The Scalate team is pleased to announce the availability of Scalate 1.1.

Scalate is a Scala 2.8 based template engine which can be used stand alone, with servlets, in JAXRS, with the Play Framework or in Apache Camel. (Work on lift integration is in progress).

All expressions inside Scalate benefit from the full power of Scala plus they are typesafe and checked at edit/compile time to ensure you don’t leave any mistakes in your templates.

Two template languages are currently supported:

• Ssp which is like a Scala version of Velocity, JSP or Erb from Rails
• Scaml which is a Scala dialect of Haml for very DRY markup

Scalate 1.1 Highlights

• Ssp now supports Velocity style directives for more concise looping and branching.
• new Scalate Tool for creating new projects with Scalate more easily
• improved API for working with templates from different sources (file, URL, Source, String etc) via the helper methods on TemplateSource object and methods on TemplateEngine which take a TemplateSource
• easier to configure whitespace handling via the escapeMarkup property on TemplateEngine and RenderContext so its easy to configure markup escaping for an entire project or enable/disable it within templates.

For more detail see the Full Change Log

Feedback is always welcome!

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