Archive for the ‘Middleware’ Category

One of most important things, if not the most important in software, is release process. There are whole books written about “shipping software” and software release is one of key parts which needs to happen in order to deliver our programs to end users. In this very short post I will give you a short […]

Apache Camel supports a mapped diagnostic context which can be used to improve log entries, but also there is a log component which makes it easier to create log entries. Together they can be used to create foundations of activity monitoring without need to deploy another tool or database.

Few hours ago I’ve found an usefull post about preserving message order with ActiveMQ written by Marcelo Jabali from FUSE Source. In his example Marcelo used broker feature called Exclusive Consumers. It lets send messages only to one consumer and if it fails then second consumer gets all messages. I think it is not the […]

Last two days I’ve spent hacking Swing code. I decided to run standalone producer application to show real interaction with broker. You may treat this Swing app like entry point for people to our middleware system. Users simply do “transfers” from this application and don’t know anything about technical details. I added text area to […]

Data with middleware The data structures are very important in middleware world. Because we often connect multiple systems we need to define an “domain model” for integration. The domain model means that objects we share between all systems are well known, well defined, well understand in multiple teams often provided by multiple vendors. Let see […]

At end of the May I had great time in United Kingdom providing consulting. After this I started thinking about sharing an idea of middleware application based on ActiveMQ and Camel features. I’ve spent few days to create sufficient example. What middleware is? Middleware is a general term, about some software which is some kind […]


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