The SwitchYard team has finished up work on SwitchYard 2.1.0.Final.    This release features WildFly 10 support, improvements in the SOAP and REST components, HTTP reference improvements, and support for enabling endpoint and data format definition.

What is SwitchYard?

SwitchYard is a structured framework for developing integration applications using the design principles and best practices of Service Oriented Architecture.  It integrates really well with Apache Camel and JBoss Application Server, Karaf and Fuse, providing a runtime based on the best open source integration and application server options out there.  A slightly longer description can be found here.

What's in Final?

The Quickstarts have been tested inside and out and contain detailed instructions now for EAP, Karaf, and Wildfly.

A list of all the issues that went into 2.1 can be found in JIRA.

Where do I get this goodness?

The SwitchYard Downloads page has all the SwitchYard bits and pieces.  The Eclipse tooling, along with installation instructions can be found at this update site, http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/luna/integration-stack/earlyaccess.  There's also a Docker image which can be found at http://www.jboss.org/docker/.

To get up to speed quickly, I highly recommend following the Installation Guide to install the runtime.  The guides are short, moderately useful, and 71.23% free of spelling and grammatical errors.

How do I learn more?

• Check out the SwitchYard Documentation which contains a whole bunch of useful stuff.
• Watch some awesome videos and learn all about SwitchYard in our new SwitchYard Video Series.
• Take a gander at our Quickstart applications.  Run them as is and see SwitchYard in action.  Or change some stuff and see what blows up.

What's next?

SwitchYard will move to a future 3.0 Alpha.    Planned features for the 3.0 release are EAP 7 support, Karaf 4 support, Java 9 support, Camel upgrade, and improvements to the SOAP component.

The SwitchYard team has been working like busy little elves this holiday season: filing edges, knocking off corners, sanding, painting and polishing SwitchYard into beta form.  They've got all the features in place and have squashed many bugs along the way.  With that, I'm pleased to announce SwitchYard 2.0, Beta1.  We're hoping to get a final release out in January, so please kick the tires, take it for a test drive and let us know what you think.

What is SwitchYard?

SwitchYard is a structured framework for developing integration applications using the design principles and best practices of Service Oriented Architecture.  It integrates really well with Apache Camel and JBoss Application Server, Karaf and Fuse, providing a runtime based on the best open source integration and application server options out there.  A slightly longer description can be found here.

What's in Beta1?

We've got the rules and BPM components working on WildFly (woo hoo!) now using Drools/jBPM v6.2 beta3.  We've upgraded to Camel v2.14 and we've moved to Karaf 2.4 (for the OSGi stuff).  The quickstarts have been improved to make them easier to test on the various platforms we support (e.g. -Pwildfly or -Pkaraf).  The debugger has stabilized and now works well on Eclipse Luna (JBDS 8).  And, as mentioned above, we've squashed a lot of bugs: Beta1 JIRA

Where Do I Get This Goodness?

The SwitchYard Downloads page has all the SwitchYard bits and pieces.  The Eclipse tooling, along with installation instructions can be found at this update site, http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/kepler/integration-stack/switchyard/2.0.0.Beta1/.  There's also a Docker image which can be found at http://www.jboss.org/docker/.

To get up to speed quickly, I highly recommend following the Installation Guide to install the runtime.  The guides are short, moderately useful, and 69.23% free of spelling and grammatical errors.

How Do I Learn More?

• Check out the SwitchYard Documentation which contains a whole bunch of useful stuff.
• Watch some awesome videos and learn all about SwitchYard in our new SwitchYard Video Series.
• Take a gander at our Quickstart applications.  Run them as is and see SwitchYard in action.  Or change some stuff and see what blows up.

What's next?

The SwitchYard team is going to take a little break to enjoy the holidays, but is intent on releasing 2.0 sometime in January.  After the holidays, we're looking to spruce up the documentation and address any issues found in beta.

Happy Holidays from the SwitchYard team!

It's been a while since we've seen anything from SwitchYard Land, but I'm pleased to announce the first preview of SwitchYard 2.0.  The community has been pretty busy this spring, cleaning, pulling weeds, and also adding some major features.  That said, this is an alpha release and there might be a few rough edges, new features that aren't yet complete, documentation that's a little out of date, maybe one or two bugs, but, overall, it's in good enough shape to take for a test drive.  Take it for a ride around the block and let us know what you think.

What is SwitchYard?

SwitchYard is a structured framework for developing integration applications using the design principles and best practices of Service Oriented Architecture.  It integrates really well with Apache Camel and JBoss Application Server, providing a runtime based on the best open source integration and application server options out there.  A slightly longer description can be found here.

What's in 2.0 Alpha2?

The biggest changes coming in 2.0 are support for other runtime containers, specifically WildFly, Karaf and Fuse.  In addition to getting SwitchYard running inside these new containers, we've added support for a few more Camel modules, added some debugger support to the tools, and fixed a number of bugs.  Here are the highlights:

• SwitchYard is now compatible with WildFly 8, however BPM and Rules components are not yet available, nor is the console.
• SwitchYard is now compatible with Karaf 2.3, please see SwitchYard on Karaf for details on what's working and what you need to do to get what's working working.
• Debugger support is now available in the tools.  The debugger allows you to set breakpoints on services and references and allows you to configure when those breakpoints should be enabled (e.g. when the exchange is initiated, before the provider is invoked, outbound transform, etc.).
• New components:
  • SAP
  • ATOM/RSS
  • Bindy
  • HL7
  • Dozer
  • MQTT
• Better stability when running on Fuse (use features url: mvn:org.switchyard.karaf/switchyard/2.0.0-SNAPSHOT/xml/core-features)

A list of all the issues that went into 2.0 alpha1 can be found in JIRA.

A list of all the issues that went into 2.0 alpha2 can be found in JIRA.

Where Do I Get This Goodness?

The SwitchYard Downloads page has all the SwitchYard bits and pieces.  The tooling can be found at this update site, http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/kepler/integration-stack/switchyard/2.0.0.Alpha2/.  I highly recommend following the Installation Guide to install the runtime and tooling.  The guides are short, moderately useful, and 69% free of spelling and grammatical errors.

How Do I Learn More?

• Check out the SwitchYard Documentation which contains a whole bunch of useful stuff.
• Watch some awesome videos and learn all about SwitchYard in our new SwitchYard Video Series.
• Take a gander at our Quickstart applications.  Run them as is and see SwitchYard in action.  Or change some stuff and see what blows up.

SwitchYard and OpenShift come together like peanut butter and jelly in our latest episode in the SwitchYard Video Series ...

Getting sick of all these 0.x minor releases of SwitchYard?  Well good news ... we're getting all major up in here with a 1.0.0.Final release!  Truth be told, the bits have been available for weeks now, but we spent some quality time with the tooling and documentation after the runtime was done to make sure 1.0 was done right.

What is SwitchYard?

SwitchYard is a structured framework for developing integration applications using the design principles and best practices of Service Oriented Architecture.  It integrates really well with Apache Camel and JBoss Application Server, providing a runtime based on the best open source integration and application server options out there.  A slightly longer description can be found here.

What's in 1.0?

This was a monster release for the team, with 184 total issues resolved for 1.0.  Here are the most important updates for 1.0:

• The project has changed from LGPL to the Apache License v2.0.
• Camel components not distributed directly with the project can now be added as extension modules to the SwitchYard subsystem, allowing any Camel component, data format, etc. to be added to SwitchYard easily.
• Camel routing services can now configure multiple routes per service.  This allows complex routing logic to be broken up into separate routes and also makes our XML routes play nicely with the Fuse Camel editor.
• HTTP-based gateways (REST, SOAP, HTTP) added support for proxy configuration, basic authentication, and NTLM.
• All gateways have been updated to include support for starting and stopping individual bindings.  This allows you to stop/restart processing on a given endpoint from our admin clients.
• The SOAP Gateway now supports MTOM, SOAP w/ Attachments, and WS-Addressing.
• Generating Java interfaces from WSDL is now supported in the visual editor for all the folks that like to design top-down.
• The JCA gateway has been tested and documented for use with ActiveMQ for message inflow and outbound.
• The SwitchYard admin API has been updated to include JMX support.
• Multi-step transformation is now supported, so if you don't have a transformer to go from A -> C, but you have A -> B and B -> C, then we can get the job done.
• BPM services now support customizable correlation keys so you don't have to pass the process instance id back into the process with each subsequent request.
• Service throttling is now supported to govern throughput for any service.
• We went through the public API with a fine-tooth comb to make it nice and clean.  There will be no backward incompatible changes made to APIs or configuration for 1.x.
• Our tooling gets more beautiful with each release, and this one is no exception. 
• An EAR deployment example has been added to our quickstarts and is now tested as part of our release test suite.
• If you don't want to put clear text passwords in your switchyard.xml, you can use our properties support in combination with the AS 7 password vault to protect that sensitive info.
• Security can now be configured on a global or per-service basis with the addition of named security configs to switchyard.xml.

A list of all the issues that went into 1.0 can be found in JIRA.

Where Do I Get This Goodness?

The SwitchYard Downloads page has all the SwitchYard bits and pieces.  I highly recommend following the Installation Guide to install the runtime and tooling.  The guides are short, moderately useful, and 67% free of spelling and grammatical errors.

How Do I Learn More?

• Check out the SwitchYard Documentation which contains a whole bunch of useful stuff.
• Watch some awesome videos and learn all about SwitchYard in our new SwitchYard Video Series.
• Take a gander at our Quickstart applications.  Run them as is and see SwitchYard in action.  Or change some stuff and see what blows up.

We're trying something new in the SwitchYard project with our most recent release.  The team has created a new video series which is focused on helping new users get started with the project and for existing users to gain a deeper understanding of SwitchYard features and capabilities.  There are three guiding principles for the series:

• Live Action : each video provides a live demonstration of a SwitchYard concept or feature.  The idea is to complement the documentation through live action and provide additional context where it's needed.  (N.B. : we violate this rule in the very first episode which is more of a trail map than a demonstration).
• Informal : to a certain extent, quantity is better than quality here.  We're gonna make them useful, but we won't spend much time doing 1000 takes or polishing the videos in post-production.  That said, I have submitted an expense request for celebrity cameos in the videos.
• Community-Focused : we belted out six videos right away based on what we thought might be useful.  Where we go from here is something we would like our community to decide.  If you have burning questions or areas where you feel a demonstration would really add to the documentation, please let us know in the forums or file a JIRA.  Here's an example request.

All of the videos can be found on the SwitchYard Video Series page.  Here's one of the videos in the series to see what they are all about:

SwitchYard 0.6 has gone final and is stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey.  The issue bucket for 0.6 was a veritable horn o' plenty, with 157 issues resolved over the course of the release.  Here's a sampling of the features:

• Security policy now supports pluggable authentication providers with PicketLink and PicketBox integration out of the box.
• Transaction policy definitions for starting a global or local transaction around a service.
• Transaction policy on service references allow you to declare whether a transaction should be propagated or suspended on invocations from your services.
• Clustering of SY instances.
• A remote service invoker.
• A ton of work around improving the visual editor and adding support for new features in 0.6.
• Added a RESTEasy gateway.
• Added a vanilla HTTP gateway.
• Added dynamic operation selectors which allows the service operation to be derived from message content/context.
• Operation-level drill down for service monitoring.
• Enhancements to the rules and bpm components around fact insertion and event notification.
• Easy peasy deployment and testing of quickstarts.
• Improved Camel integration in core and test framework.

If you'd like to learn more, check out the latest edition of our critically acclaimed Release Overview series for details, examples, and links to additional information.

Cheers,

The SwitchYard Team

Looks like the SwitchYard presentations from JUDCon Boston are now available.   I posted the slides to the blog some time back, but the video helps fill in the blanks and also includes live demo action.  If you want to see the absolute latest and greatest, check out the SwitchYard session during JBoss Integration Week tomorrow at 1:00pm ET.

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