Brian Fitzpatrick

Sr. Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.

Brian Fitzpatrick

Brian "Fitz" Fitzpatrick has been working for Red Hat working on Eclipse tooling for the last several years, most recently on the Fuse Tools project.

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Click-through learning with VS Code and Didact

Click-through learning with VS Code and Didact

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By Brian Fitzpatrick

The Didact project is designed to fill a void in Visual Studio Code, but what exactly is it? And more importantly, why should you care?

Didact started as a “What if?” VS Code doesn’t provide a great way to walk users through a step-wise tutorial. “What if” we could meet that need by combining the following:

  • A simple markup language (such as Markdown or AsciiDoc).
  • The ability to render the markup as HTML using the VS Code webview.
  • A way to invoke the commands we create for each VS Code extension.

And over the course of a day or so of coding, I had a working prototype.

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Sending a telegram with Apache Camel K and Visual Studio Code

Sending a telegram with Apache Camel K and Visual Studio Code

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By Brian Fitzpatrick

When I was introduced to Apache Camel K a few months ago, I was amazed at how quickly developers could write and deploy an Apache Camel-based integration on Kubernetes. We immediately started work on creating Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) Code-based tools to make things even easier.

What is Camel K? It’s a lightweight integration framework built from Apache Camel and designed for a serverless/microsystem world that runs natively on Kubernetes. It lets developers write integrations in their favorite Camel DSL and quickly deploy them on Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift. You can even write your integrations in lightweight languages like Groovy or JavaScript.

We already built language support in VS Code for Apache Camel using the Language Server Protocol (LSP), offering auto-completion for Camel component URIs in both XML and Java. More recently, we began adding the same support for Groovy, JavaScript, YAML, and Kotlin. (See the Apache Camel LSP client project for details.)

Now, with our new Tooling for Apache Camel K by Red Hat extension, we add support for Camel K in your IDE. To illustrate the tools in action, let’s start with a simple user story inspired by an article that Nicola Ferraro wrote a few years ago (Creating a Telegram Bot in 5 minutes with Apache Camel).

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Getting started with the updated VS Code Yeoman extension for Camel projects

Getting started with the updated VS Code Yeoman extension for Camel projects

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By Brian Fitzpatrick

The Visual Studio (VS) Code IDE is one of the most-used platforms for JavaScript, C#, and Python developers and is quickly becoming one of the top three tooling environments at Red Hat. VS Code is highly customizable and offers a healthy and growing marketplace for extensions of all types and technologies, including an extension for Yeoman. In this article, I’ll explain how to get started using the updated extension that works with latest versions of VS Code.

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Jump start camel projects with the new yeoman-based project generator

Jump start camel projects with the new yeoman-based project generator

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By Brian Fitzpatrick

The Red Hat Fuse Tooling team recently broadened its focus from a cross-platform, single-IDE (Eclipse) approach to a cross-platform, cross-IDE approach (Eclipse, VS Code, Che), starting several concerted efforts to provide tools that work across platforms and development environments. Supporting VS Code has become a priority that led us to explore using the Yeoman framework for project and file generation to provide developers a way to jump start their Fuse/Camel development efforts.

This article describes the Yeoman framework and the new Yeoman-based Camel-Project generator the Fuse Tooling team created, and it shows how to install and run the generator.

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How to migrate your SOAP web service to REST with Camel

How to migrate your SOAP web service to REST with Camel

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By Brian Fitzpatrick

SOAP-based services are plentiful in many enterprise solutions and are slowly being replaced by RESTful services to simplify their use. There is a new wizard to help you make the transition with Apache Camel’s Rest DSL added in the latest version of Red Hat Fuse Tooling. This article shows how to use the new wizard to transition from older SOAP-based services to more modern REST-based services.

If you aren’t familiar, Red Hat Fuse is an integration platform based on Camel and a number of other projects. The updating Fuse Tooling is available in Red Hat Developer Studio 12.0.0, the desktop IDE that is based on Eclipse 4.8 Photon. You can also get the new wizard by adding JBoss Tools 4.6 to your existing Eclipse 4.8 Photon installation by downloading it directly, or installing via the Eclipse Marketplace.

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Getting Started with Global Beans in Fuse Tooling 10.0.0

Getting Started with Global Beans in Fuse Tooling 10.0.0

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By Brian Fitzpatrick

Red Hat JBoss Fuse provides an open source, lightweight, modular platform that enables you to connect a variety of services and systems across your application environment. And, included with Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, is the Fuse Tooling that helps you take advantage of that platform.

The route editor initially focused on the parts of the Camel configuration inside the route or Camel context element, but in version 8.0.0, we began adding support for global elements such as data formats and endpoints on the Configurations tab. With the 10.0 release, we add support for beans that are outside the route.

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