Chapter 1. Basic Concepts for Developers

The basic requirement for development with Red Hat JBoss Fuse is the Java Development Kit (JDK) from Oracle. Generally, the recommended version is J2SE 1.6—for more platform-specific details, see the Red Hat JBoss Fuse Supported Configurations page.

The recommended build system for developing JBoss Fuse applications is Apache Maven version 3.0.x. See the Installation Guide for more details.

Maven is more than a build system, however. Just as importantly, Maven also provides an infrastructure for distributing application components (typically JAR files; formally called artifacts). When you build an application, Maven automatically searches repositories on the Internet to find the JAR dependencies needed by your application, and then downloads the needed dependencies. See Section 1.3, “Maven Essentials” for more details.

The JBoss Fuse Tooling provides a set of developer tools for developing Red Hat JBoss Fuse applications within Red Hat JBoss Development Studio. Using JBoss Fuse Tooling, you can connect and configure Enterprise Integration Patterns to build routes, browse endpoints and routes, drag and drop messages onto running routes, trace message flows, edit running routes, browse and visualize runtime processes via JMX, and deploy your project's code to Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Fabric8 containers, to Apache ServiceMix, and to Apache Karaf. You can download the Red Hat JBoss Fuse Tooling from within Red Hat JBoss Development Studio. For details, see the Red Hat JBoss Fuse Tooling Installation Guide.