Question

I currently work on a trading application that does not use camel.
It essentially takes in trades, does some processing and sends the details to an external system.

We now have a need to integrate with 3 new systems uusing FTP for 2 systems and JMS for 1 system.

I would like to use Camel in my application for these integrations. I have read a good chunk of camel in action but I was unclear on how we could kick off our camel routes

Essentially, we dont want to modify too drastically any part of the existing application as its working well in production.

In the existing application, we generate a Trade Value Object and its from this object that that I want to kick off our camel integration.
I dont have a database table or jms queue where I can kick off the route from.

I had a quick look at the Chapter on Bean routing and remoting in the Camel in Action book but I wanted to get peoples advise first before proceeding with any steps.
What would be the best approach for this integration?

Thanks
Damien

Answer 1

You can use Camel’s POJO Producing feature that allows you to send a message to a camel endpoint from the java bean. If you have no need in JMS or DB you can use “direct:” or “seda:” or “vm:” endpoint as <from> part of your route.