Camel in ServiceMix and MessageExchanges

[jcrean]

Hi Folks

I am trying to get my head around the directional aspect of MessageExchanges flowing to a camel component in ServiceMix.

Does camel have a default InOut flow? If I have a FilePoller (defaults to InOnly) bc and I need to transform the file in Camel, do I need something like a pipeline in order to talk to camel?

thanks

Joe

[jcrean]

Hi Folks

sorry, just read the thread below and it seems that camel can handle these MEPs a little more subtly i.e . it seems to depend on how the camel route is set up. So I guess my new question is: is it really that flexible wrt MEPs?

thanks,

joe

[gnodet_gnodet]

jcrean wrote:

Hi Folks

sorry, just read the thread below and it seems that camel can handle these MEPs a little more subtly i.e . it seems to depend on how the camel route is set up. So I guess my new question is: is it really that flexible wrt MEPs?

thanks,

joe

Yeah, Camel is really flexible wrt MEPs.  In a pipeline, if a component set the Out message, the next component will receive the Out as the In message of a new exchange.  If not, the next component will receive the same In message as the previous component.  The result is more flexible, but a bit less enforceable, so you need to pay attention to the way the route is set up and what components are used.