Experts Gather at First Community Event for Apache Camel on May 24 in D.C. Area 
CamelOne 2011, the first community event for enterprise users of Apache-based open source integration and messaging projects, will be held near Washington, D.C. May 24-26. The event, produced by FuseSource, will feature founders of Apache Camel, ServiceMix, ActiveMQ and CXF, as well as top project committers and adopters.
CamelOne 2011, the first community event for enterprise users of Apache-based open source integration and messaging projects, will be held near Washington, D.C. May 24-26. The event, produced by FuseSource, will feature founders of Apache Camel, ServiceMix, ActiveMQ and CXF, as well as top project committers and adopters.
“CamelOne is the first time an event has been designed specifically around enterprise users of open source integration and messaging solutions,” Debbie Moynihan, vice president of marketing for FuseSource told IDN. “We’ve worked hard to give attendees great content, excellent networking opportunities and most of all access to the top names in open source middleware to allow them to learn and share ideas with project founders and experts.”
CamelOne is designed for “those people that are ‘on the ground’ creating and integrating applications.” Moynihan added. At the event, expert speakers will share the latest in Apache integration technologies, best practices and insight into how developers and architects are using Apache Camel to speed integration and cut costs and complexity of those projects, she said.
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CamelOne’s Expert Keynoters and Speakers
Include Top Apache Founders and Committers
“CamelOne keynote speakers will include the most influential experts in the community,” Moynihan told IDN. One of the keynoters is Gregor Hohpe, co-author of the landmark book “Enterprise Integration Patterns” (Addison-Wesley, 2003) and contributor to “97 Things Every Architect Should Know” (O’Reilly, 2009). Hohpe is currently a software engineer at Google.
“Gregor’s book, ‘Enterprise Integration Patterns,’ is a landmark, as it is the first reference book that presents a standard notation for integration patterns,” Moynihan said. The book is so valuable in fact that the Apache Camel project is “largely an implementation of the patterns in this book.” CamelOne will also give attendees the chance to meet and interact with Gregor and our other experts, she added
CamelOne will also host James Strachan, the founder of the Apache Camel project. A veteran of open source integration projects, Strachan is also the co-founder of Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ServiceMix, Scalate, created the widely-used Groovy programming language and a committer on other projects like Apache Karaf, Lift and Jersey.
Other CamelOne expert speakers will include:
- Rob Davies, founder of Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ServiceMix, Apache Camel and author of ActiveMQ in Action
- Claus Ibsen and Jonathan Anstey, both Apache Camel committers and co-authors of “Camel in Action”
- Adrian Trenaman, FuseSource Road Warrior, speaking on Apache CXF and Apache Camel
- Top enterprise adopters of Apache Camel, including a technical expert from General Electric.
CamelOne is the first event designed specifically around enterprise users of open source integration and messaging solutions.
Debbie Moynihan,
Vice President of Marketing
FuseSource
CamelOne Agenda – Overview
CamelOne’s agenda provides a broad array of technical and implementation discussions aimed at helping attendees leverage many of Apache Camel’s most powerful features. Among them:
- Camel’s rich set of 50+ pre-configured integration patterns for the most common data and application integration tasks. These tasks range from basic tasks (such as RPC, file transfer, data sharing, content-based routing and messaging) to more business-centric integration requirements (request/reply, processing messaging with multiple element, content filtering, etc.).
- Camel’s support for the most popular programming languages, including Xpath, XQuery, XML, Scala DSL, as well as many popular scripting languages (Groovy, JavaScript PHP, Python and Ruby). For traditional Java developers, Camel also supports Bean Language. “This nice thing with this feature is that developers don’t need to spend a lot of time learning a new language to take advantage of these patterns,” Moynihan said.
- Camel’s ability to work with other integration platforms and commercial technologies. “There are many instances where Camel has been used successfully inside enterprises that already have multiple ESBs from commercial vendors. Within a single organization, it’s not uncommon that we see multiple ESBs being used in a commercial / open source mix,” Moynihan told IDN. “Camel was designed so it can be easily plugged into any existing integration architecture.”
- Camel’s graphical tooling and IDE plug-ins with Eclipse. “To keep the learning curve short, Camel also has some powerful drag-and-drop graphical tools, and the Camel IDE also will plug into Eclipse,” Moynihan said. “As a result, we’ve seen a lot of project developers used to using scripts or other Eclipse-supported languages quickly learn how create ‘integration points’ from their existing code, and then move on to become integration developers. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
- Camel’s rich lifecycle facilities to move from design to test to deploy. Apache Camel comes with a test environment, where users can test routes and integrations right within an intuitive graphical environment.
Aside from CamelOne’s rich technology agenda, the event is equally focused on programs to strengthen and grow the Apache integration community. “CamelOne as an event has many networking opportunities so the speakers and attendees can meet each other and foster connections,” Moynihan said, “That interaction is so important because it drives the next wave of Apache ideas and offerings. I thought it was also important to have a free get-together in the evening for community building.”
In specific, FuseSource will sponsor a free “community get-together” the evening before the formal CamelOne event to provide people a chance to network and connect.
For those looking for more intensive Apache integration and messaging training, following the event, there will be highly-interactive two-day training sessions led by Apache experts for ActiveMQ 5 and ServiceMix 4 with Camel. Attendees registering for either training session receive a complimentary registration for the CamelOne Conference, Moynihan said.
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