docs/manual/src/docbkx/whatissmx4/platform_presentation.xml

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<section id="platformpresentation"
         xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
         xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
         xsi:schemaLocation="
               http://docbook.org/ns/docbook
               http://www.docbook.org/xml/5.0/xsd/docbook.xsd"
         version="5.0" xml:lang="en">
        <title>Platform presentation</title>

  <para>
    Apache ServiceMix is an distributed ESB built from the ground up on the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification JSR 208 and released
    under the Apache license. The goal of JBI is to allow components and services to be integrated in a vendor independent way, allowing users 
    and vendors to plug and play.
  </para>

  <para>ServiceMix uses ActiveMQ to provide remoting, clustering, reliability
  and distributed failover.</para>

  <para>ServiceMix is completely integrated into Apache Geronimo, which allows
  you to deploy JBI components and services directly into Geronimo. ServiceMix
  is being JBI certified as part of the Geronimo project.
  </para>

  <para>ServiceMix can be embedded into a JEE application server such as
  JBoss, Oracle Weblogic or IBM Websphere.
  </para>

  <para>ServiceMix includes a complete JBI container supporting all parts of
  the JBI specification including: <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>NMR (Normalized Message Router)</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>JBI Management MBeans</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>full support for the JBI deployment units with hot-deployment of
        JBI components.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist></para>

  <para>ServiceMix also provides a simple to use client API for working with
  JBI components and services.</para>

  <para>ServiceMix includes many JBI components including HTTP, JMX, CXF,
  BPEL, etc.
  </para>

</section>