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 Platforms Supported 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.

Red Hat JBoss Fuse IDE is an eclipse-based development tool for developing Red Hat JBoss Fuse applications and is available either as a standalone binary or as an eclipse plug-in. Using Red Hat JBoss Fuse IDE, you can quickly create new Fuse projects with the built-in project wizard and then edit Apache Camel routes with the drag-and-drop graphical UI. You can download Red Hat JBoss Fuse IDE from the download page.