Rhiot quickstarts - getting into the IoT really fast!

The goal of the Rhiot project is to allow the developers to create the Internet Of Things projects as easily as possible. We want to make the complex IoT projects simpler and bring the fun to the IoT world, while preserving all the benefits the developers can gain from the rich Red Hat JBoss Middleware portfolio. 

Keeping Rhiot philosophy in mind, we decided to start releasing the quickstarts - the set of the base projects that can be used as a building blocks for the IoT solution. Rhiot quickstarts can be copied and used as the template for your IoT solution.

The programming model we have chosen for Rhiot quickstarts revolves around Camel and Vert.x. Camel routes are our primary choice for the expression of the endpoint connectivity and message routing. So starting embedded MQTT ActiveMQ broker and connecting to it might be as simple as using the following Groovy snippet:

class MyMqttApp extends CamelBootstrap {

    void configure() {
        from(mqtt('topic')).log('Received ${body}')
    }

}

Vert.x verticles and event bus are also the first class citizen in all the Rhiot applications. So Rhiot can help you with detecting Vert.x verticles or make it as easy to connect to the event bus as:

class MyMqttApp extends CamelGroovyVerticle {

    void configure() {
        eventBus('temperature').to(mqtt('temperature'))
    }

}

Looks interesting? More details about Rhiot API and quickstarts soon to come!