Question

I have a restful webservice build on CXF framework. the requirement is that when someone hits this server i have to fetch some data from content providers like google, bing etc according to the parameters received and have to give back the same to the client. now calling service provider and getting its result is to be done using Camel Framework.
i have identified that using simple routes from(“direct:start”).to(“http://google.com.bean)(ffoo|bar) can let me talk to the service provider and do whatever i want with the result. but the problem is what should be in the place of “direct:start” so that this route starts from my service method which is being hit by the client. i read a bit about POJO producing but i could not understand how does it works and whether it will solve my problem.

Also i have a query .. that in this syntax.. from().to() … to is the consmer and from is the producer or vice versa?? because in my logs it says route is consuming from the direct:start…
Would prefer a spring configuration type of answer

Thanks

Answer 1

Initially i implemented cxfrs component for my webservice (inspired by Roy Truelove’s answer) but that lead to other complications. so now using direct:start component for starting the route .. my config looks like this:

<camel:route>
<camel:from uri="direct:start" />
<camel:process ref="customInProcessor" />
<camel:to uri="http://localhost:8080/DummyGoogleProject/search" />
<camel:to uri="bean:googleResponseHandler" />
</camel:route>
</camel:camelContext>

customInProcessor does some processing like modifying CamelHttpUri , Path , Query etc (without this there were some problems in route execution)
I am injecting exchanges in “direct:start” endpoint via ProducerTemplate from my POJOs (POJO producing)