Posts Tagged - Camel

I've been distracted by doing a couple of webinars on Camel so I haven't had a lot of time to spend on digging into my original blog post on Camel, CXF, and ServiceMix / JBI working well together. From looking at the JBI spec it seems that for WSDL 1.x, JBI does 'mandate' using the JBI XML wrapper. My sense is that since I'm having the CXF components work with / generate from a WSDL 1.1, it seems reasonable that would wrap the XML message. The other ServiceMix components are magically generating the NMR / WSDL binding for me so apparently its up for debate if the must use the JBI wrapper element - if they generate WSDL 2.0, the wrapper element is optional.

From looking at the JMS and HTTP components, its clear that there is a framework in place using Camel interceptors to add the JBI or SOAP envelopes when needed.

At this point, I'm going to let the dust settle with Camel 2.0, ServiceMix 4.x, etc. before I dig in more on how to get Camel's jbi endpoint to do the right thing with that jbi message wrapper….

Well, here's the classic "Its my first blog post" statement, so let's see how this goes :-)

I've been working with ServiceMix and Camel since Feb 2009 when I joined the Progress FUSE technical field. Now I'm looking to take the next step and start digging much deeper into the code. So I thought this experience of digging into the code would also be a code this to start blogging about.

The first thing I was going to look into is how some of the ServiceMix components handle messages with or without a JBI Message wrapper. Specifically, the CXF BC and SE components, by default, expect an XML message to be wrapped. The challenge is that messages sent from Camel via the JBI endpoint do not / can not be wrapped automatically (i.e. I'd need to code in the wrapping myself). Putting in a simple XSLT transform to wrap my XML messages in the minimal JBI message elements isn't a big deal, but its something I'd expect Camel to do for me (I am a lazy developer at heart :-) ).

Right now I'm getting my development environment setup so I'm working off the ServiceMix and Camel Subversion repos. I've also taken this opportunity to setup the Nexus Open Source version to help better manage interactions with the various Maven repos, and Nexus does appear to help speed up a full ServiceMix build.

Next steps are to find the JBI wrapper code in the CXF components to understand how they work. A big question for me is, it looks like the JBI Message wrapper is optional in the JBI spec, so shouldn't the servicemix-cxf components just handle the presence, or not, of the JBI wrapper automatically versus, by default, requiring other JBI components to do it? I understand that I can disable the JBI wrapper by setting useJBIWrapper=false on the CXF components, its just annoying that I have to disable something for many / most other components to interact with it.