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This was Chris Paul on Tuesday, talking about a fresh batch of trade rumors that had him going from the Hornets to the Knicks. "I try not to pay attention to all that stuff," he said. "My heart is in New Orleans."
On Wednesday, according to report from Yahoo! Sports, Chris Paul's agent informed the Hornets front office that he won't stay in New Orleans past this season, and that he'd like to be traded to the New York Knicks as soon as possible. And at least until Dwight Howard quietly demands a trade to L.A., that disconnect between Paul on Tuesday and his agent on Wednesday makes CP3 the new face of superstars run amok in the NBA.
He's now What's Wrong In The NBA. The superduperstar with no loyalty and no honor who's willing to go off and hijack his team's season for his own selfish demands, etc.
People hate this stuff with good reason; it's not fun to listen to non-stop trade rumors for a whole year. It's not fair to the fans in that player's city, but for the rest of us, it turns NBA news into a neverending stream "Sources" and "Reports" and reports countering the earlier reports, and on and on and on.
Thursday, Chris Paul offered the ying to Yahoo's yang, offering another denial of the trade rumors. And the cycle continues... This stuff is just the worst.
But before you go off and blame CP3 for being the no-good, horrible backstabber behind all this, let's be clear: If he'd said Tuesday what his agent said Wednesday, he'd have been fined heavily by the NBA. That's why he offered another denial on Thursday. It's against the rules for players to openly request trades, so in this case, Chris Paul's just playing by the NBA's rules. And that's really the theme to this story, in general.
The new NBA rules force superstars into demanding trades and engineering these months-long soap operas. Here's how, in general terms:
- To promote "SUPERSTAR X" from leaving "HOME TEAM" in free agency, the NBA's new collective bargaining agreement allows HOME TEAM to offer SUPERSTAR X more money, and a longer contract.
- For instance, if SUPERSTAR X signs with EVIL TEAM, the most he could get would be $74 million over four years. If he stays with HOME TEAM, he could get $100 million over five years and HOME TEAM can exceed the salary cap to keep him.
In theory this gives superstars financial incentive to stay with their original teams.
But if franchise players do want to leave their teams, then this model gives leaves them with an obvious choice. Sacrifice $26 million and an extra year at max salary in exchange for the freedom to play where they want, OR tell their current team that they're definitely leaving, and force that team to choose between trading them now, or risk losing them for nothing.
SUPERSTAR X can also dictate where he's traded--by committing to a long-term deal with only certain teams. Or maybe only one team. This limits the options for the team trying to trade him.
Then, if SUPERSTAR X gets traded to the team he wants--say, the Knicks--then New York become that player's HOME TEAM in the model above, and they can offer the maximum amount of money and years, and go over the salary cap to do it. The "sign-and-trade" has become the "trade-and-sign", the only way a superstar can still go to the team of his choice and maximizes his market value at the same time.
In other words, if you want to blame guys like Chris Paul and Dwight Howard for thinking about trades before the season even begins, then you're arguing against players having the ability to choose where they want to play and make as much as money as they can.
The last time that logic was considered legitimate was 1975--when there was no three-pointer, a battle over integrated busing was erupting in Boston, and David Stern was a 33 year-old lawyer at a firm called Proskauer Rose ... where he worked as the lead litigator opposing Oscar Robertson's lawsuit fighting for NBA players' rights to become free agents.
And Stern's role in 2011 is where these Chris Paul rumors get interesting.
There are few wrinkles to consider here.
- One of the biggest forces driving the NBA lockout--a public relations disaster on its own--was owners' unhappiness with the amount of leverage star players hold over their teams. Because in 2011, losing one superstar can kill a franchise's overall value in a market. This led to the league's desire to limit superstar movement.
- Nobody understands this better than David Stern, who believed it made sense to miss two months' worth of the 2011 season to seek a new a system. Basically, the NBA wanted to avoid situations where superstars hijack entire markets with sign-and-trade demands. Now, the new CBA hasn't even taken effect, and the NBA's new rules have already been exposed as a failure...
- ...And it's all being exposed in New Orleans--not just another small market team, but a small market team the NBA currently owns, whose market value could rise or fall dramatically based on what happens to Chris Paul.
- If the Hornets don't trade Paul and lose him for nothing next summer, they'll probably lose David West, too, and sending them tumbling to bottom of the league.
- If the Hornets do trade Paul, they'll get no more than 50 cents on the dollar, and a team David Stern owns will have just proved the NBA lockout's most ambitious goal--leveling the playing field for small markets--was a complete and utter failure.
None of this is to say that Chris Paul's definitely going to the Knicks. Personally, I hope CP3 softens his stance, just because I think Chris Paul playing with Blake Griffin in L.A. would be the greatest gift the Basketball God's have given us since the 2011 NBA Finals.
But if he doesn't, then there's a pretty epic game of chicken shaping up here. If Paul refuses to commit to any team but New York--a team that doesn't have much to offer in a trade--the Hornets could always just refuse to trade him and force Paul to sign there as a free agent.
If he's not traded to the Knicks, then New York can't offer him the 5-year $100 million deal, and even worse, they can't go over the salary cap to sign him. Because of the salaries they already have with Carmelo and Amare, the most they could offer would be $58 million over four years. In other words, Chris Paul would have to take a $42 million paycut to play in New York.
On the other hand, if Paul leaves as a free agent anyway, the Hornets get nothing in return. Who knows how much that'd hurt the value of the franchise the NBA's currently trying to sell, but it'd be much worse than $42 million. So if Paul doesn't blink soon, New Orleans might have to.
It's not necessarily a bad thing, either. Chris Paul in New York or L.A. would be a kickass story for one of the league's most under-appreciated superstars, and it'd generate insane amounts of interest in the NBA as a whole, if not New Orleans. (BTW: Replace "Chris Paul" with "Dwight Howard" and "New Orleans" with "Orlando" and that sentence still holds up.)
The problem with the NBA's new rules is that they ignore the reality that inspired them--the prospect of losing a superstar in today's NBA costs more to the team than it would to a superstar, even if he's sacrificing money. You can't change that unless you A) stop marketing superstars to limit their influence in the NBA or B) reinstitute the logic of 1975.
Make no mistake, that's what David Stern and the owners wanted to do with the NBA lockout. They couldn't quite get there without missing a season, so Stern relented at the eleventh hour. Now what we have is a rule that amounts to putting a piece of gum over a faucet and expecting it to stop running. The problem isn't the faucet, it's the running water. It's nature.
You can't stop the free market unless you shut it down entirely. Otherwise, the asset (SUPERSTAR X) is always going to have the leverage. Maybe CP3 isn't the beginning of a hundred different superstars exploiting this, because not every superstar is going to demand to play with his friends. At this point the NBA should just concede that all of CAA's clients--Paul, LeBron, Wade, Bosh, Melo, etc--are going to form superteams, and pray that the next generation decides to forge a path of their own. Kevin Durant isn't going to demand to play with Blake Griffin one day. (Um... Right?)
But speaking of following a path, earlier this week, Ken Berger at CBS Sports outlined Paul's chances of going to the Knicks superteam with the following: "In a cruel twist, the very path that he's trying to follow has been largely cut off because of the backlash against those who paved it."
That's true if you're talking free agency or a sign-and-trade, but not a trade that lets him sign later. Chris Paul's just taking the path in a new a direction. And if it's "cruel twists" you want...
- The commissioner who began his career opposing player movement is finishing out his career fighting the same losing battle. He plugs one loophole and creates another, still helpless the flow of the free market.
- The owners who wanted to discourage superstars movement used the NBA Lockout to forge a system that essentially encourages departing stars to demand trades before their contracts end.
- The league that spent six months of press conferences talking about the importance of small markets now owns the small market franchise that's about to hand a "superteam" to either Los Angeles or New York City.
The Chris Paul situation is a perfect storm of the NBA's conflicted interests, transparent inequity, and fool's logic, all wrapped in a rumor that will dominate the news all year long until it happens. Then it can happen all over again if/when a new "SUPERSTAR X" decides he wants a new team, but doesn't want to sacrifice $26 million to get there. The blueprint's already clear.
It's all kind of incredible. We always knew "competitive balance" was just a pipe dream, but after Stern and the owners used it to justify the NBA lockout... Man, Chris Paul is their worst nightmare.


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The eight teams are set out west, but who can end up where? SBN's general hockey blog, From The Rink, took detailed look at where things are, what's left, and what possible finishes lie ahead.
- The Sharks and Blackhawks will have the top two seeds.
- The Canucks are locked into third.
- Phoenix can clinch the fourth spot with a single
pointwin (correction courtesy of Saskhab). Nashville and Los Angeles both have opportunities for home ice if the Coyotes lose their remaining games.
- Fifth through eighth is a complete jumble. There are no head-to-head match-ups between Nashville, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Colorado outside of the Colorado/Los Angeles game to end their respective seasons. That means that Colorado could still wind up fifth if the other teams lose all their games -- no other head-to-head match-ups means that there are no guaranteed points for that group of teams.
For the entire read and to get a handy take on what will happen in the West, head over to FTR.

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The code you posted isn't enough for anyone to debug it, since it's clearly relying on ColdFusion? or something on the back making HTML, and then obviously some library or hand-made tools...
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Here you'r getting a value of the state of your tabs, so you might want to check that clientStateField isn't null, but actually gets something. I assume the program has to get the states before picking out the one who's active first. "activeTabChanged" is being assigned the function below... does that function actually get useful stuff for the sender and args parameters?
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Navigating the Integration Landscape - Claus Ibsen on Apache Camel
DZone had a chance to sit down with Claus Ibsen, author of the recently published Refcard Enterprise Integration Patterns with Apache Camel. In this interview, Claus, a Principal Engineer at Progress Software in the FUSE team, discusses best practices and pitfalls associated with application integration, and how Apache Camel addresses some of these challenges. He surveys the open source ESB landscape, describes where Camel fits in and gives some valuable advice on how to properly evaluate and select the right ESB solution.DZone: Hi Claus, could you tell us a little bit about yourself and your background in software integration?
Claus Ibsen: Yeah sure. I hold a position as Principal Engineer at Progress Software in the FUSE Team (http://fusesource.com), where we specialize in open source integration. I am very fortunate to work full time on Apache Camel and our FUSE empowered products and tools.
I started in the IT industry back in 1998 as a traditional developer on the AS/400 platform. I later changed to develop software on the PC platform doing integration to the AS/400. And in the year 2000 I jumped on board the Java platform developing middleware on top of the AS/400 platform. So I started my career doing software integration using legacy and proprietary protocols such as EDI, MQ, socket, batch files etc. The dot com era took me to the land of the J2EE and web. I was technical architect and lead developer on several major projects using the latest J2EE stack money could buy. The bubble burst and in 2003 I was contracted as a technical architect and consultant to work in China (Shanghai), on a new integration infrastructure for custom clearance for the local government in Shanghai. The system handles a very high load of transactions per day as its handling payments between governments, banks and transport agencies for to entire Shanghai region. It was a great experience to live and work in a different culture than the western. A year later I returned to Denmark, and the time thereafter I have mostly been a client side consultant helping clients with their integration needs.
In terms of open source, my "career" started as many others by trying frameworks and contributing back patches and fixes. As I am curios I downloaded the source code and started digging into the internals. I helps me better understand the framework and also lear new skills. That lead my into as a committer for both Apache Camel and many years ago on the WebWork/Xwork projects.
I have also developed a plugin for IDEA and released it as open source. I started using IDEA in 2002 and at that time I needed it to be able to dump logging information for my model objects and therefore I developed the generate toString() plugin. This plugin is now in safe hands as its bundled out of the box with IDEA.
DZone: How did you become involved in the Apache Camel project?
Claus: It started, when I was working as a consultant for my last client, as we where looking for a new integration platform, to replace Sun JCAPS. My client was facing difficulties to find talented people that had or wanted to work with this platform. And the platform itself has a very poor productivity and ease of use. They where looking for something that was much more agile, flexible, leaner and most importantly can run in their existing platform and infrastructure. Something that SUN had promised them, but they couldn't keep.
As I used my spare time to track emerging technologies and try out frameworks that potentially can make my day work easier, I spotted several open source frameworks such as Apache Camel, Apache ServiceMix and Mule that could fit in my clients organization. I started digging into Camel and along the way I submitted patches for bug fixes and new features etc. 3 months later James Strachan invited me in as a committer and I think the Camel Community can testimony that I have been active and devoted since.
DZone: Apache Camel is in the line with some other Apache Foundation integration projects including ServiceMix, and Apache Synapse. Is there any relation between these two projects and Apache Camel?
Claus: Camel grew out of our experiences on ServiceMix. There was a component in ServiceMix called the eip-component which acted as the inspiration for Camel; we basically decided to spin off a separate EIP implementation using a very simple JBI-like API that could be used within ServiceMix to route between JBI endpoints - but also be usable in any other environment such as a web application, a JMS broker or web services gateway.
DZone: It would appear that many much of the functionality that you cover in the Camel Refcard can be implemented, in a fairly non-intrusive way, using a message mediator like Apache Synapse. Why would I choose to go with Camel instead of Apache Synapse?
Claus: Here's a link to a comparison.
Camel is way more popular with a bigger more active and diverse community - its almost as popular as Struts and way more popular than all of the Apache Web Services projects put together (so more popular than Axis + Synapse et al): http://www.nabble.com/Apache-f90.html
Camel is developed first and foremost around the Enterprise Integration Patterns as a first class citizen - that is the logical model in Camel which you can work with in the DSL of your choice: currently either Java, XML, Scala, Groovy, Ruby - or Java beans with annotations. So it tries to raise the abstraction level to that of the patterns rather than be low level plumbing like previous integration technologies tended to be.
For example Synapse started life as a mediation engine for Axis which is a very different focus.
DZone: Other than Apache Synapse, are there any other projects out there that provide the level of integration that Camel provides?
Claus: I would say that Mule and Apache ServiceMix are the only projects I am aware of that are on par with the level we have in Camel. Spring Integration is a fairly new project and it has a lot of catch up to do.
DZone: Performance is always a big concern for integration professionals. Could you share some of your experiences with Camel performance in the context of high throughput systems?
Claus: Camel is a lightweight framework; it typically doesn't affect performance in and of itself a whole lot - what does affect performance greatly is the actual endpoints and their configuration. e.g. if you are using JMS then the pooling and concurrency configuration is way more relevant to whether you use Camel or native JMS etc.
Another common performance gotcha is when doing lots of XML/XPath/XQuery routes its often advisable to transform payloads into some XML format (DOM or JAXB bean or ADS data objects) once to avoid multiple parses for each expression evaluation.
Finally another trick to boost performance when doing transacted messaging; maybe with XA - is to use transaction batches which can boost latency or perceived throughput for a single thread (though if you are running many parallel processing threads it often doesn't make a huge difference to overall system throughput).
DZone: What 'best practices' would you advocate for folks using Camel on integration projects?
Claus: Start simple and test early using our testing framework.
James Strachan has really put great innovation into this kit that we use extensively to test Camel itself. It works well with Spring Testing or regular Junit classes. You can use spring property placeholders for the actual server names so you can build a single integration route as skeleton for all your environments.
Camel is so powerful and easy to get things done; most patterns are a single line of Java code - that folks often run before they can walk. By testing early and iteratively adding more features & requirements its easier to spot why things go wrong.
You can mix the Spring XML configuration with the power of the Java DSL.
Decouple your business and integration logic from the Camel API using Camels powerful Bean Binding. This allows you to have all your logic with no dependency at the Camel API at all.
A recent addition is the Camel web console.
That is used for runtime visualization of routes. You can browse the messages on the endpoints and you can also use it to send in new messages. Its also useable to control routes by stopping, starting or even edit them at runtime.
And for old fashioned logging in log files we have the Tracer.
That will trace all messages and how they are routed at runtime. If it all goes to fast for you to keep track you can globally reduce the pace of the routing and thus at runtime tail a log and easier spot what happens.
DZone: What are the most common pitfalls when using Apache Camel?
Claus: A given problem will often have multiple solutions in Camel. So choosing which solution to use in your situation or what is the best practice can lead to a bit confusion at first. Folks don't tend to use the EIP designer and debugger that often so when things go wrong its often a bit hard to visualize the routes, put breakpoints at points in the flow and debug the route in an EIP way. Its trivial to add a bean/processor within a route and use a regular Java debugger; but its way simpler using the FUSE tooling.
DZone: When evaluating an ESB product, what are the main comparison criteria?
Claus: It tends to depend on what you need from an integration solution. Do you want a web services intermediary; a general purpose integration platform and framework or just a way to develop distributed SOA applications?
Write down your requirements. You are looking for a product that meets your requirements and not which products that has most features marked in a feature matrix.
An in the open source space you should look for a product that has a professional organization backing it. You need someone to engage for support, training, and being active maintaining and growing the community around the product.
And you should definitely look at the community. So look for how big and active is the community? How diverse it is. For instance if its a single VC backed company behind it, then who knows if it'll get dropped as a product soon?
You should also look for if the product is actively maintained and developed. The world in the IT landscape changes very rapidly, so you don't want to end up running your business on a product that gradually decline to nothing. Look for activities in the forums, mailing lists, commit log, issue tracker, blog entries, articles and books and the likes.
And when you try out the product put questions out on the forum or mailing lists to see if there is any help and response. If the product lack a feature or you have found a glitch then submit a ticket to the issue tracker and check the response. If your feature requests isn't in the roadmap for the product maybe the product isn't moving in a direction that suits your business.
Then the product itself should support standards at both the API and network layers. Standard APIs such as: REST, WS-*, JMS/Stomp/AMQP for messaging, XMPP and other of the new ones.
The product should be modular and plugin friendly. It should be possible to provide your own modules/components to the product so they work seamless with the product as if they are shipped of the out of the box.
And last but not at least about the product itself, how lightweight and flexible is it? Can you use any of your existing platform and infrastructure as runtime, or do you need to introduce a new platform to the operations division? They would sure love if it can be hosted seamless into their existing mix of servers and infrastructure.
And often overlooked but one of the key points in my optic - Power back to the developer. At any given problem it should be possible for the developer to handle a problem. I use the picture - there should be a "sweat spot" where the cursor is blinking and the developer feel home where he can write code that solves the problem. I have often seen integration with legacy system where you need to cater for all kind of corrupt data it spit out. Its often harder and more expensive to get the legacy vendor to admit and fix the problem, than have your own integration team capable of dealing with it. Standards are fine but it should be possible to deal with systems that unexpected differs from the standard.
DZone: What advice would you give to our members that are currently involved in integration projects?
Claus: No shoe fit all sizes. You should definitely take your time to try the different products. Take responsibly for your business and integration, your vendor does not run your business and your problems might not be on their priority list. That is why I think you should build a team with experienced resources that is capable of taking up this responsibility. Its is naive to let your business in the hands of the vendor and its army of endless consultants. Use less $$$ in the hardware and platform itself and more on bringing in the right talent to your team, and/or hire independent consultants in the role as your guard dog, capable of playing in the ballparks with the vendors. Integration is more about having the right team than the platform and hardware itself. No vendor have build the nirvana product that can substitute talent and experience.
If you want to learn a bit more about what Camel is and what it can do then take time and read this excellent article by Jonathan Anstey a fellow Camel committer.
And my last advice. Take a ride on the Camel, you wont regret it.
(Note: Opinions expressed in this article and its replies are the opinions of their respective authors and not those of DZone, Inc.)
Asankha Perera replied on Thu, 2009/04/02 - 9:44am
Asankha Perera replied on Thu, 2009/04/02 - 10:02am
"Camel is way more popular with a bigger more active and diverse community - its almost as popular as Struts and way more popular than all of the Apache Web Services projects put together (so more popular than Axis + Synapse et al):"
Did you mess up your addition? Lets really check this one:
Camel Users: 121
Camel Developers: 62
Synapse Users: 160
Synapse Developers: 146
Axis2 Users: 1759
Axis2 Developers: 661
Reference: Ken Coar's page at http://people.apache.org/~coar/mlists.html
James Strachan replied on Thu, 2009/04/02 - 11:22am in response to: Asankha Perera
Claus Ibsen replied on Thu, 2009/04/02 - 11:30am
I get these figures:
Camel user forum: approx 267 posted threads on the user forum:
Synapse user forum: approx 48 posted thread son the user forum:
Asankha Perera replied on Thu, 2009/04/02 - 12:13pm in response to: James Strachan
I sent two emails on 24/6/2008 to both the ActiveMQ PMC and ServiceMIX PMC. I even have a reply to one from Guillaume Nodet time stamped "06/24/2008 01:06 PM" and copied back to the Synapse PMC saying:
"..We'll update the page asap..."
On "07/11/2008 04:15 PM" I replied back to him with a reminder:
"I guess with a busy schedule, you have not yet got the time to update that page about Synapse.. but I believe you soon will :-)"
Now check the last edited timestamp on the page: http://servicemix.apache.org/how-does-servicemix-compare-to-synapse.html which reads: "Added by James Strachan, last edited by Guillaume Nodet on Jul 11, 2008"..
Interesting ah? ... but now what happens next.. the page then goes on to quote Dave Chappell "one of the founders of Synapse" .. about something said *before* Synapse ever started to exist. Some of those who started Synapse didn't want it to be called an ESB at that time, for reasons related to their business. For the record, some of these people never wrote a line of Synapse, so they can never know what it is! if you want stats look here: http://people.apache.org/~asankha/synapse/statsvn/. and you are better off quoting what I say about Synapse!
Then the page *again* says ".. Building an SOA on Apache Synapse would presume that all exchanges in the SOA would be made through SOAP-based Web Services..." ?? Duh! Do you expect those reading these pages to be so silly as those who write them?
James, You've proven many times on record that you never can learn about Synapse, or be truthful:
- http://markmail.org/message/fquqptdmuficadqz
- http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=45743
- Emails to the ActiveMQ PMC [*]
[*] BTW.. if you have trouble locating emails on the ActiveMQ PMC.. I can resend the old emails. Both Camel and Synapse being Apache projects, I would bet more on Ken's pages for real stats on the numbers of subscribed *users* than on something outside the ASF.. but your mileage may vary, of course!
James Strachan replied on Thu, 2009/04/02 - 12:46pm in response to: Asankha Perera
Claus Ibsen replied on Sun, 2009/04/05 - 3:09am
When a project has a live community then its a key factor indicating the project itself is sound and supports business needs. There are many ways of tracking this but a good starting point is measuring the activities
a) activity in the community such as user forum, irc chat, blogs, twitter tweets, articles, books, session on conferences etc.
b) activity in the project such as commits, JIRA tracker, number of releases, other projects uses it as foundation, etc. User forum activity:
We use markmail as it supports a great and simple visualization and stats:
Apache Synapse markmail stats:
Total number of posts on user forum in the year 2008: 1222
Total number of posts on user forum, in the first three months in 2009: 279
Apache Camel markmail stats:
Total number of posts on user forum in the year 2008: 4135
Total number of posts on user forum, in the first three months in 2009: 1298
Blog activity:
We use Google Blogs search to as a quick indicator for the activity related to blogs.
Note: When I type the search criteria in Google I type it as: "Apache Synapse" and "Apache Camel" eg with " " enclosing the text.
Apache Synapse: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,592 for "Apache Synapse". (0.06 seconds)
Apache Camel: Results 1 - 10 of about 6,495 for "Apache Camel". (0.15 seconds)
And lets narrow the search to entries for this year, eg we click the "Choose dates" and type in 1/1/2009 - 4/5/2009 as date range
We want to see how the latest activity is and not if the project had peeked in the past.
Apache Synapse: Results 1 - 10 of about 48 for "Apache Synapse". (0.08 seconds)
Apache Camel: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,458 for "Apache Camel". (0.27 seconds)
As you can see the situation changes quite dramatically.
For Apache Synapse out of the total 1592 hits the 48 of them are from 2009, approx 3%.
For Apache Camel out of the total 6495 hits the 1458 of them are from 2009, approx 22%.
Twitter tweets activity
I use twitter search to search for tweets. I type "Apache Synapse" and "Apache Camel" also with " " enclosing the text.
There are no total count, so you have to count them manually.
Apache Synapse: 13 in total
Apache Camel: 87 in total
Activity in project, number of commits
I use markmail to count the number of commit messages
Apache Synapse: about 1108
Apache Camel: about 6488
And for last year alone, eg year 2008
As the projects didn't start at same time, then we look at last year as both projects started before 2008.
Apache Synapse: about 861
Apache Camel: about 3425
And the first three months in 2009:
Apache Synapse: about 222
Apache Camel: about 1618
http://markmail.org/search/?q=apache%20camel#query:apache%20camel%20list%3Aorg.apache.camel.commits%20date%3A200901-200903%20+page:1+state:facets Comments: So yes my mileage vary, but they are based on google, twitter, nabble, markmail and other key services. Its all about the activities, the community is only alive if there is activity on all fronts: forums, chat, blogs, tweets, talks on conferences, books being written, google summer of code, forked projects, or the community creating services around the project or add new or related features. For instance a company specialized in health care have build their integration platform on top of Camel: Open eHealth Integration Platform
Claus Ibsen replied on Sun, 2009/04/05 - 4:04am
I was a bit puzzled by the number of subscribers vs. the activity. For instance if we look at a project such as Shale, that is well frankly degrading (e.g. it is outrun by other popular web frameworks).
Kens stat for Shale:
Mailing list user @ shale.apache.org
Current subscribers: 173
Total posts (814 days): 2309
Mean posts per day: 2.84
And then we look at the mail archives such as markmail to see the activity:
Number of posts in user forum in the last 6 months: 17
Number of posts in user forum since 2008 - today: 194, with an average of (194 posts in 465 days) = 0.4 post/day.
The user activity in the user forum is degrading/very low but there are still 173 subscribers? Are these subscribers active = no. In my point of view the number of subscribers is a questionable figure to measure or compare projects. At least the figure should not be the only figure you should aggregate other stats to give you better more sound facts when evaluating and comparing projects. You can do the same measurement for Camel and Synapse as well, comparing the activity vs. the number of subscribers of the mailing list. And the time is changing how people interact with a project. They use other services such as: google, blogs, twitter, feed aggregators, irc, jabber, etc. So the mailing lists is only a part of the overall activity in the community. At the end its you who should make your own investigations and most importantly try the projects and get in contact with the community to see if its there to help you when you need assistance. If none replies your mails or posts on user forums then its frustrating and might not be the right community for you.
Daniel Kulp replied on Mon, 2009/04/06 - 8:21am
Camel, on the other hand, is a moderated list. People can (and frequently do) interact with the mailing list though services such as Nabble so they DON'T have to subscribe. I know on CXF, a couple of the committers/developers don't even subscribe to the list, they interact via Nabble. That allows a lot more interaction with the community as there are a lot of people that won't go through the trouble of subscribing just to post a question/comment.
Thus, number of subscribers is pretty bogus. It definitely doesn't reflect they number of people actively participating in the community which is the important number to consider.


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After hearing the details of the case on Wednesday February 19, a decision – that could be subject to appeal – was taken by Mr Mark Gilmartin, Director of Support Services at Essex Police, to dismiss the officer without notice.
The circumstances of the case were that the officer met a vulnerable victim in his policing capacity and engaged in a relationship which was inappropriate.
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Benjamin Bear and his friends have played all day, but when it's time for bed, Benjamin still feels bouncy! Luckily his family helps to show him that quiet time can be fun, too, and by the time Mama Bear has read him his stories and his prayers have been said, he feels happy and cozy and ready to go to sleep.
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— Authorities with the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) last week announced the mistaken release of an offender from authorities in Chicago, Ill.
Steven L. Robbins, 44, was released Jan. 29 from the Indiana State Prison on a court order to the Cook County Circuit Court where he was facing a charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. The charges against Robbins there were dropped and Illinois authorities mistakenly released him instead of returning him to IDOC's custody.
A warrant for his arrest was issued in both Indiana and Illinois. He was re-arrested by the Cook County Sheriff's Department on Friday in Kankakee, Ill., and was returned to the Indiana State Prison on Saturday.
Robbins was born in Gary and is serving a 60-year sentence for murder and carrying a handgun without a license out of Marion County. He arrived at the Indiana State Prison on Oct. 25, 2004, and his earliest projected release date is June 29, 2029.


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The Panthers released CB Chris Gamble on Friday. Gamble is the franchise's all-time leader in interceptions.
Carolina Panthers: 2013 team needs
We highlight the top three needs on offense and defense for the Carolina Panthers, and take a look back at their 2012 draft class.
Panthers cut DT Edwards
The Panthers released DT Ron Edwards on Friday, the team confirmed.
Gettleman: Panthers could keep Williams, Stewart
Dave Gettleman spent his 62nd birthday doing something he never did: speak — on the record, anyway — to the media.
Panthers to begin renovation after 2013 season
The Panthers plan to begin renovations on its 16-year-old stadium immediately after the 2013 NFL season.
Panthers add DT Cole
The Panthers signed DT Colin Cole, the team announced Friday.
Ranking the NFL divisions for 2013
PFW associate editor Kevin Fishbain takes an early stab at ranking the NFL's divisions for 2013, led by the NFC South.
Panthers promote Shula to offensive coordinator
The Panthers stayed in-house to replace Rob Chudzinski, promoting Mike Shula to offensive coordinator, according to Joseph Person of the Charlotte Observer.
Panthers must tackle big defensive need inside
The Panthers have ignored the DT position high in the draft in recent years. That could change.
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Panthers LB Luke Kuechly, the 2012 NFL leader in tackles, was voted PFW/PFWA's Defensive Rookie of the Year.
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Munnerlyn called the 2012 season one of the best of his four-year career, and he's hoping to get a chance to build on it in a Panthers uniform next season.
Panthers name Gettleman general manager
The Panthers announced Wednesday that Dave Gettleman has been hired as general manager.
Panthers fire three assistants
Panthers LB coach Warren Belin, WR coach Fred Graves and RB coach John Settle will not return in 2013, the team announced Tuesday.
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Panthers owner Jerry Richardson will move into the next phase of his search for a new general manager next week.
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The Panthers have decided to retain head coach Ron Rivera, according to the Charlotte Observer.
A person familiar with the penalty says the NFL has fined Panthers quarterback Cam Newton $21,000 for abusive conduct toward a game official. The person spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity because the league hasn't announced the fine.||||||| Newton shouted at and bumped referee Jerome Boger in the fourth quarter of Carolina's penalty-plagued 17-6 victory over the Oakland Raiders on Sunday. Newton apologized after the game, saying "the words that I said during the game were very disrespectful and I apologized to (Boger) during the game, but I'm going public and apologizing again. It was something in the heat of the moment." Boger said he didn't feel the bump was enough to warrant an ejection.
Newton was 18 of 29 for 170 yards with one touchdown and one interception on Sunday in a win over Oakland. He also ran for a score.||||||| Newton has 14 touchdowns and three interceptions over his last eight games.
Newton went 19 of 33 for 231 yards and two touchdown in Carolina's win against San Diego on Sunday.||||||| Newton's sophomore campaign has truly been a campaign of two seasons. He compiled a 75.2 passer rating with five touchdowns and eight picks in the Panthers' first seven games, but has a 102.6 rating with 13 touchdowns and two interceptions in seven games since.
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JT Donaldson live on Hvw8 with Ty G.
We caught JT while he was in town last weekend, just before his sets at the King King and DoOver here in LA.
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Havelock continues as the number one team in the Touchdown Friday Top 9 poll. The Rams rolled past previously number two New Bern 31-13 last Friday night. Havelock is the defending 3A state champion. Here is the newest poll, which includes a tie in the number nine slot. Touchdown Friday Top 9-Week 31. Havelock 2-02. Plymouth 1-03. DH Conley 2-04. Jacksonville 2-05. James Kenan 2-06. JH Rose 2-07. West Craven 2-08. West Carteret 2-09. Kinston 2-0 New Bern 0-2 TIE
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The Regional System of District and School Support (RSDSS) is a part of the statewide system of school support that was established to meet state and federal requirements. The support system, working within county offices of education (COEs), offers intensive and sustained assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools receiving Title I funds to increase the opportunity for all students to meet the state's academic content standards. California uses a regional approach to address the needs of students because of the vast number of schools and districts in the state. This support system delivers and brokers resources to districts and schools in need of improvement.
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Region 3 provides leadership, resources, and assistance to districts and schools to increase district capacity to support Title I schools and ensure that all students are provided with the best education to meet and/or exceed state and local content and performance standards. Region 3 plays an integral role to deliver support to LEAs assisting schools subject to corrective action; LEAs with schools identified as in need of improvement; and other LEAs and schools that need support to reach higher levels of academic achievement in accordance with the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.
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Region 3 covers a ten-county geographic area that extends from the greater Sacramento area in the west to the rural counties of Yolo, Yuba, Sutter, and Colusa in the north, and extends from the Sierra foothills to Lake Tahoe, including the counties of Nevada, Alpine, Sierra, El Dorado, and Placer.
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- Assist LEA staff in the development of District/School Liaison Teams to work with LEAs and school staff members as they utilize the state-developed tools.
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Feeling Icky About Pelosi's Gushing Praise for Hastert
by Matt Stoller, Thu Jun 01, 2006 at 05:48:30 PM EDT
Nancy Pelosi offered these warm words of praise to Dennis Hastert yesterday.
"I salute Speaker Hastert for reaching this milestone - it is a testament to his leadership within the Republican Conference and the halls of Congress.
"Dennis Hastert began his career as a teacher and coach; he now serves the people of Illinois and America. While we often disagree on issues, we agree on the importance of public service - the kind of public service that has been the hallmark of his career, whether in a classroom or on the House floor.
"In Congress, we all hold the title `honorable' by virtue of our office; Dennis Hastert holds it by virtue of his character. I salute him for his service to our nation and look forward to many future opportunities to work together."
I mean come on.
Upon election to Speaker, Dennis Hastert immediately offered audiences to lobbyists for campaign cash, and despite widespread anger at corruption, continues to offer these meetings. Dennis Hastert was also a reliable ally of Jack Abramoff, is 'in the mix' of a bribery scandal, and weakened the ethics committee by removing members who enforced ethics rules.
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Since early May, 18 batches of mosquitoes have tested positive for the West Nile virus in the Nashville area. Nashville's News 2 recently spoke with mosquito researcher Dr. Alicia Bray who offered up knowledge on the often pesky insects. "There are at least 60 different types of mosquitoes in Tennessee. Most mosquitoes do not bite humans, most bite small mammals, squirrels things like that," she explained.Though mosquitoes typically target mammals, the insects do pose a deadly threat to humans with the risk of West Nile virus. "For West Nile, they have to bite a bird that has West Nile and then bite a human that does not have West Nile to transmit those diseases," Dr. Bray said. Dr. Bray added that only female mosquitoes bite and they seek out certain body chemistries. "They really like perfumes, if you use perfumes, shampoos or conditioners or lotions, they really like that," she explained. The insects also are drawn to sweaty feet or shoes. "They really like those smells, so they will be attracted to your feet," Dr. Bray added. Dr. Bray also said mosquitoes are more likely to be out in full force and bite when there's a full moon. "Mosquitoes like a full moon because they can see well. It provides more light they can be more active," she explained. Health officials add that clothing plays an important part in repelling mosquitoes. Dr. Bray recommends long, loose and light clothing.
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Hi All,
I need some assistance in implementing bayes using JAM SPamassassin which I am trying to get working on a staging server.
We use linux currently which works great but trying to get this working properly on a windows server aswell.
So far I see there is a sa-learn.exe file that I assume needs to somehow be used.
I've also created a folder called bayes and uncommented the following lines in local.cf
# Use Bayesian classifier (default: 1)
use_bayes 1
bayes_path D:/testpath
# Bayesian classifier auto-learning (default: 1)
bayes_auto_learn 1
What else needs to be done and how do I use sa-learn with spamd to get this working. Thanks