I got satisfaction (architectural solutions and cool technologies)
Very busy couple of weeks. I got over some new (for me) technologies that are actually pretty cool.
I got a lot of free degree of movement in the rejuvenation and restructuring of a software infrastructure that aims to deliver an ecommerce store for different countries. The plan was to build a new message driven middleware based on ActiveMQ to manage the store orders distribution to some external system (like SAP). We need to have a lot of different small, very specific subject that are able to consume and manage the store orders in, ehm, order to manipulate them the most natural solution to me seem to run them in a OSGi container that allows to install, uninstall, upgrade, start and stop many different OSGI bundles (nothing more than simple jars with some meta information) in the easiest and fastest way. So I got the change to play with Apache ActiveMQ to build the middleware and Apache Felix to have the OSGi container.I got over both of them in less than two weeks, doing other tasks in the meantime.
Now I have a running Felix and I am able to produce a bundle that got activated once installed and started. This without changing my build tool chain, a simple "mvn install" is enough to produce the bundle, I just miss the way to deploy directly to the felix install.
And on the ActiveMQ side I can connect producer as well as subscribers to my queues or topics and my subscribers are able to reconnect and recover messages they lost when they were offline. This solve all the first wave of technical challenges and put the basis for a nice infrastructure. So I am satisfied and I deserve a present, let's go looking for that Android phone...
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