I agree that we need to start doing, rather than reading. This section is intended to help the reader get started with ServiceMix. We will try out few examples without looking much into the rationale behind doing so, since the same has been covered through other chapters. Moreover, a single "Getting Started" section alone is not sufficient to help a reader new to ESB to appreciate all aspects of it; hence, we will not attempt that in this chapter alone.

There are multiple ways to get started but obviously developers like us have to code something, build, deploy, and get that running without too much hassle. That is exactly what we will do in this section. Let's do that now.