Chapter 3. Installing on Apache Karaf

Red Hat Fuse is installed by unpacking an archive file on your file system.

Getting the archive

You can download the Fuse on Karaf archive from the Red Hat Customer Portal→Downloads→Red Hat JBoss Middleware→Downloads page, after you register and log in to your customer account.

Once logged in:

  1. Select Fuse, listed under Integration Platforms, in the sidebar menu.
  2. Select 7.1.0 from the Version drop-down list on the Software Downloads page.
  3. Click the Download button next to the Red Hat Fuse 7.1.0 on Karaf Installer file.

Unpacking the archive

Fuse on Karaf is packaged as a .zip file. Using a suitable archive tool, such as Zip, unpack Fuse on Karaf into a directory to which you have full access.

Warning

Do not unpack the archive file into a folder that has spaces in its path name. For example, do not unpack into C:\Documents and Settings\Greco Roman\Desktop\fuse.

Warning

Do not unpack the archive file into a folder that has any of the following special characters in its path name: #, %, ^, ".

Using the IBM JDK

If you are using the IBM JDK, remove the saaj-api jar from the installDir/lib/endorsed library using the following command:

rm lib/endorsed/org.apache.servicemix.specs.saaj-api-1.3-2.7.0.jar

Before invoking the ./bin/fuse script:, set the JAVA_OPTS environment variable as follows:

JAVA_OPTS=-Xshareclasses:none