Hi James/Clause, Thanks for your comments. Well i get the picture now. The confusion was essentially because everything is eventually a Processor :)
Thanks again. Best Regards, Madhav Claus Ibsen-2 wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:24 PM, unmarshall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Richard, >> >> Thanks for your comment. I agree with your argument however i can very >> easily implement a custom processor and use it for multiple routes. A >> component internally calls a processor in the form of Consumer/Producer >> attached to an endpoint. >> >> So again if i look at the XSLT component i feel that a custom processor >> would have done that as well and could have been reused. So you already >> have >> XsltBuilder (processor) which is directly used from inside the xslt >> component. Apart from using that processor it does nothing much. So that >> raises the question again in my head as to when to create a component and >> when not to. >> > > A component allows you to abstract at a higher level and you can use > endpoints to leverage the component. > So you can just send the message to an endpoint with an URI String. > > A custom processor you cannot do this. > > In the end user what suits you best :) > > > >> Best Regards, >> Madhav >> >> >> Richard Kettelerij wrote: >>> >>> I've discussed the choice between components and processors earlier in >>> http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/How-to-handle-firefox-outputting-files-as-component-td3047751.html#a3047804 >>> (second message). >>> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Custom-component-Vs-Custom-processor-tp3256585p3258487.html >> Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > > > -- > Claus Ibsen > ----------------- > FuseSource > Email: [email protected] > Web: http://fusesource.com > Twitter: davsclaus > Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/ > Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen/ > > -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Custom-component-Vs-Custom-processor-tp3256585p3258618.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
