Last night, IONA hosted a meetup party at JavaOne so the Apache folks could get together and chat and say high as well as for the users of the projects to meet the developers. IONA is involved in several Apache projects like CXF, Active MQ, ServiceMix, and Camel. We wanted to say thanks to all of the users of the projects and basically just say “Hi”!
I must say, I had a great time last night. It was great to finally put some faces to several of the CXF folks that I’ve been chatting with on IRC and the mailing lists for the last several months. There was a good turnout of CXF users. Even the mysterious “Dan Diephouse” whom I haven’t been able to chat with for quite a while made an appearance. In all, it was a very good time. I know Debbie was clicking away with her camera. Hopefully she’ll have some pictures to share shortly.
Can you throw some light on the relationship (business and technical) between IONA’s Fuse Services Framework and Apache CXF?
In what respect are they same?In what respect are they different?
IONA’s (now Progress) Fuse Services Framework is basically a “certified” version of Apache CXF that we can support in a commercial manner. Basically, that means we’ve done some extra testing with it (builds on multiple platforms, extra automated testing of the kit samples, etc…) as well as fixed extra bugs and stuff that IONA customers have hit. Those bug fixes are pushed back into Apache, but the Apache release cycle may prevent those from being put in a supportable release for weeks.
There is also extra documentation, an actual installer, etc… that make it more of a “product”. Also, it works with the FuseHQ stuff to provide better management.