Claus Ibsen: Apache Camel 2.6 released

I got a little behind on my Camel blogging.

Recently we released Apache Camel 2.6, as posted on the Camel website.

Here is my highlights:
- Vastly improved OSGi blueprint
- Fixed some issues running Camel in OSGi
- Improved when deploying multiple Camel apps in the same JVM. There could potentially be a naming clash in the JMX server. Camel now mitigates this automatically by re-assigning naming to avoid the clash.
- Processors and custom beans is now enlisted in JMX if they are part of an route.
- Threads pools now uses better naming in JMX which makes it more obvious where the pool is in use
- Property placeholders in XML DSL can now be used in attributes for the EIPs as well (for the string typed attributes).
- You can use the keys from Exchange in the XML DSL directly. Eg: Exchange.FILE_NAME. That makes it easier to port between Java and XML DSL.
- Fixed some issues with the Aggregator EIP
- Reduced memory footprint when using Splitter EIP in parallel mode
- Added support for "done" files in ftp/file component as I previously have blogged about.
- Some improvements to JMS in terms of JMSReplyTo
- More checks on startup to validate configuration
- Easier debugging using the Camel test kit
- JDBC based aggregation repository.
- 8 new components and 2 new data formats

The community continues to kick ass, they donated 5 new components, 2 new data formats, and 3 new examples. And and usual the community keep providing patches, report issues, ideas for improvements and as well taking Camel into other communities.