How are the FuseSource products different than the Apache projects that they are based on?
While the core code of each FuseSource product is essentially identical to a particular release from an Apache project, there are many enhancements that the FuseSource products provide. Enhancements fall into the categories of functional, support, testing, interoperability, and documentation. Functions may be added or modified by the FuseSource engineering team to meet a specific product requirement not yet supported in the open source project. For example, FuseSource Services Framework includes a Spring-based container for use with Apache CXF that is not released as part of the Apache CXF project. From a support perspective, our engineering team selects stable releases of the code for which we can provide guaranteed response times and rapid patches to meet customers’ needs. Our patches are contributed back to the Apache community project. In terms of testing, we perform additional testing on our releases and also validate compatibility with complementary components such as Artix Orche
