On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Willem Jiang <willem.ji...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Your processor implements a easy way to unmarshal the soap message.
> But I think you can leverage JAXB DataFormat to do the same thing, all you
> need to do is using a camel-xslt component for soap envelop transformation.
>
I think if its possible to make it easier then that is good. Using
JAXB + XSLT may do the trick but it would be much easier with a data
format, a type converter or a processor etc.
> Willem
>
>
> Christian Schneider wrote:
>>
>> 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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