Apache Camel Integration Concept

Motivation

Camel is a great integration library with powerful programming model. However, dealing with Soap Web Services without any container (eg. ServiceMix) could be painful. So let's change that by integrating Camel with soap-ws ;)

Goals

• provide simple way to produce/expose Soap WS in Camel
• introduce soap-ws to Camel community

CXF

Pros:

• CXF bus integration

Cons:

• lack of simple examples
• unclear documentation

Spring-ws

Pros:

• contract-first

Cons:

• messy endpoint definition

Integration concepts

• both producer/consumer support
• as short endpoint uri as possible
• SoapServer and SoapClient defined in Spring context
• SoapBuilder accessed via bean language

from("soap-ws:currencyServer")
... // request processing
    .setHeader("body").method("currencyBuilder", "buildResponse")
    .setBody().simple("${header.body}");

from("direct:request")
     .setHeader("body").method("currencyBuilder", "buildRequest")
     .setBody().simple("${header.body}")
     .to("soap-ws:currencyClient");