Murphy Bytes

Rich and I have been on a sacred quest to find an ESB that’s powerful and versatile enough to meet our needs, yet simple at the same time. I saw vert.x mentioned in a tweet by @headius. So we decided to give it a try. We built an on-line magic eight ball ( largely inspired by @net_zero because he’s all creative like that ). The application was very easy to build. The only odd issues we had were that the Array.sample method didn’t work for some reason so we had to come up with a much clunkier way of randomly selecting the message displayed by the magic eight ball. Looks like the Vert.x project itself is in it’s early stages, broken links, spotty documentation and examples, but I was largely pleased with what I’ve seen so far. I’m planning on evaluating Vert.x ESB capabilities by trying to use it as a microcontainer. I’ll post about that soon.