Hi all,

I am thinking about how to make one way services easier. Currently I generate code for the service using cxf codegen and use the camel-cxf module to create a client or endpoint that can be routed over jms using the camel-jms component. Using CXF for this task is a little overkill as very few features of CXF are used and quite a lot of configuration has to be done. I wonder if this can be done easier.

I have experimented with a possible solution for the server part. It looks like this: from("jms:myqueue").process(new SoapProcessor("com.example.customerservice")).to("bean:serviceHandler");

The idea is that a soap message for the service comes in over jms. The soap processor parses the soap xml, strips the Envelope and Body and unmarshals the content using JAXB. The processor needs the package name of the generated stub code for the service. The advantage over using camel-cxf is that there is much less configuration and you do not need cxf at runtime (which means much less jars). Additionally the serviceHandler bean only needs to have a method with the expected classs type as input parameter it does not need to implement a service interface. I have added the code of SoapProcessor to the mail as it is quite small.

So what do you think? Does it make sense to have such small scale SOAP functionality in camel? I am thinking about turning my Processor into a DataFormat and provide marshalling and unmarshalling. Does this make sense or is a processor better?

Greetings

Christian

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Christian Schneider
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http://www.liquid-reality.de

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import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Iterator;

import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;
import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;

import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.apache.camel.Processor;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

public class SoapProcessor implements Processor {

        private XPathExpression xpathExpression;
        private Unmarshaller unmarshaller;

        public SoapProcessor(String jaxbPackage) {
                super();
                XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
                xpath.setNamespaceContext(new SoapNameSpaceContext());
                try {
                        xpathExpression = 
xpath.compile("/soap:Envelope/soap:Body/*");
                        JAXBContext jContext = 
JAXBContext.newInstance(jaxbPackage);
                        unmarshaller = jContext.createUnmarshaller();
                } catch (XPathExpressionException e) {
                        throw new RuntimeException(e.getMessage(), e);
                } catch (JAXBException e) {
                        throw new RuntimeException(e.getMessage(), e);
                }
                
        }

        private final class SoapNameSpaceContext implements NamespaceContext {
                private static final String SOAP_NAMESPACE = 
"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";;

                public Iterator<?>  getPrefixes(String namespaceURI) {
                        return null;
                }

                public String getPrefix(String namespaceURI) {
                        return null;
                }

                public String getNamespaceURI(String prefix) {
                        return SOAP_NAMESPACE;
                }
        }

        public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception {
                InputStream request = 
exchange.getIn().getBody(InputStream.class);
                InputSource is = new InputSource(request);
                Element payload = (Element) xpathExpression.evaluate(is, 
XPathConstants.NODE);
                JAXBElement<?>  el = (JAXBElement<?>) 
unmarshaller.unmarshal(payload);
                Object o = el.getValue();
                exchange.getIn().setBody(o);
        }

}

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