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Considerations for Implementing JBoss Fuse in your Enterprise
In today’s modern world, the need for enterprise integration has never been greater. Companies are looking for ways to reduce the costs of their application infrastructure and one of the ways they are doing that is by extending the lifespan of older legacy platforms. This introduces a number of problems when there is also a need for the implementation of new modern systems as well. Often times it is difficult if not impossible to make these new and legacy systems communicate directly. To resolve this problem, many companies are considering adopting Red Hat JBoss Fuse to integrate these systems together. If you are considering implementing JBoss Fuse in your company’s enterprise there are several key pieces of information you need in order to make an informed decision. This starts with what JBoss Fuse really is, and what are the options for deploying it?
Camel Training
This week I started taking the Camel Development with Red Hat JBoss Fuse (JB421) training course from Red Hat. I am taking the course online using the Red Hat Online Learning Environment, or ROLE. Even though I have been using Camel for the last few years on my projects, I want to start studying for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Camel Development (EX421). I figured what better place to start to brush up on the exam objectives than the recommended training course? And since its free for me being a Red Hat employee, why not.
As I am working through the course material, I plan on building a Study Guide with relevant resources and additional reading for each section of the training, as well as relating it all back to the specific exam objectives. I have searched high and low and have not been able to find anything like this for the exam, so I figured I might as well put something together.
Stay Tuned.
Red Hat EX421 Study Guide
This guide is intended to serve as a study reference for people planning to take the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Camel Development Exam (EX421). It contains all of the information & resources that you need to properly prepare yourself for the exam.
JBoss Enterprise Docker Containers
Lately I have been working a lot with Docker in an attempt to both learn the technology for myself, as well as to be prepared for the upcoming release of OpenShift v3. As part of that, I have been building out Docker containers for several of the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Middleware products that I use on a regular basis at my clients. These have already come in extremely handy for me as I spend a lot of time rebuilding and redeploying servers to my local machine. Currently there are very few official JBoss Docker containers in existence and the few that do exist are for community edition projects. Because of this, I wanted to make a post about the containers that I have put together so far so that hopefully others can benefit from them.
All of the containers that I have built so far (and any future ones that I will build) can be found on GitHub here. So far I have containers for the following:
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0.1 to 6.3.0
- JBoss Fuse 6.0 & 6.1
- JBoss Fuse Service Works 6.0
- JBoss A-MQ 6.1 & 6.1.1
In addition to these, I am currently working on building containers for JBoss Data Grid and JBoss BRMS.
Introduction to Docker with EAP
Lately I have been experimenting with Docker and building containers for several of our JBoss Enterprise products. Mostly it has just been an exercise to learn and familiarize myself with Docker ahead of our OpenShift 3.0 release, but also I am tired of recreating EAP and FSW installations every time I need to test out something new. This post will serve as a brief introduction to Docker as well as talk about some of the containers I have built so far.