Introducing FUSE Forge - Community for Open Source Integration Projects

Progress Software has launched a new online community and collaborative environment for developing and hosting open source integration and messaging projects. The aim of FUSE Forge is to facilitate project management, communication, and coordination of integration infrastructure projects based on Progress' FUSE line, productized versions of Apache ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, CXF and Camel.

While the Forge will provide a central place to collaborate on these core integration and messaging products, it is also a place for people to submit links to other integration projects hosted and being developed elsewhere, according to Debbie Moynihan, Director, FUSE Community & Marketing.  

"The primary goal of FUSE Forge is to foster a community focused on open source integration and messaging and provide the infrastructure to develop new innovative functionality," said Moynihan.

To that end, the Progress team has also spawned several new integration projects on the Forge, to help developers build and deploy FUSE-related infrastructure:

• FUSE Depot (http://depot.fusesource.org/) - FUSE Depot is a web-based tool for provisioning distributed applications on Apache Tomcat and FUSE ESB, our certified distribution of Apache ServiceMix. With FUSE Depot, developers can assemble bundles and libraries into applications, assign those applications to containers, and schedule deployments from a central web console.
• RestMQ (restmq.fusesource.org) - RestMQ defines an open, easy to integrate, loosely coupled, technology-independent and interoperable messaging protocol so developers can use a web browser or on the command line to reliably send and consume messages.
• Management (management.fusesource.org) - A set of FUSE management extensions using JMX and REST, visualized using FUSE HQ.
• Actional Diagnostics (adg.fusesource.org) - Actional Diagnostics, currently a closed-source solution, helps developers build, test and deliver Web services for SOA, REST and POX by reducing the complexity of XML to make testing easy and accessible early in the product life cycle.

Some of the benefits for projects hosted on FUSE Forge include a development environment complete with an integrated set of tools, including:

• Source code control with Subversion or Git
• Continuous builds with Maven
• Issue tracking with JIRA
• Wikis with Confluence
• File sharing with WebDAV
• Automation for project statistics and mailing lists

For more information about FUSE Forge, visit http://fusesource.com/forge/