Lightweight components are simple jbi components that activate a single JBI endpoint and do not support service unit deployments. They can be configured using the spring configuration file or deployed onto the servicemix-lwcontainer component.
JCA allows the Java Connector Architecture to be used for efficient thread pooling, transaction handling and consumption on JMS or other Resource Adapters
Scripting support to allow any JSR 223 compliant scripting engine to be used to easily create a component, perform a transformation or be an expression language.
JMS via the Java Messaging Service plus all of the great, reliable and scalable transports in ActiveMQ which includes persistence, recovery and transaction support.
RSS support via Rome library for accessing and processing RSS feeds.
VFS via the Jakarta Commons Net library which provides access to file systems, jars/zips/bzip2, temporary files, WebDAV, Samba (CIFS), HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and SFTP among others