Hi, Imagine that you start a ESB/SOA project and you are able to design using EIP the routing that you need for most of your clients (ex : messages file or queue messages must be parsed --> client must be identified --> messages must be transformed --> DB must be called to enrich messages --> messages enriched must be send back to the client through queue manager or file directory). To develop this STP process, you use the Camel routing.
Unfortunately, over time, clients request more and more different extensions points (meaning that the routing or workflow of a client is different from another) and your routing becomes very complex because : - lot of decision points have been added to change the routing according to client's requirements, - debugging/testing time increases to be able to tests all the test case or debug problem At that moment, you contemplate to reconsider your architectural platform and to implement a dynamic routing based on the client workflow. But How can I implement a dynamic routing between my components to orchestrate the workflows of my clients ? A solution that you can investigate to implement such a workflow is to use an orchestration engine like WS-BPEL but your architecture does not require to persist state of the tasks and to use webservices. An interesting alternative is to use a workflow engine like jBoss BPM or OSworkflow to orchestrate the communication between services/endpoints. But this approach requires that you have one queue/service because the orchestration engine must place messages into the queues to trigger the correct service or component according to client's workflow. The simplest solution would be to have event to trigger components. Mule platform proposes this kind of functionality (http://mule.mulesource.org/display/MULEUSER/BPM+Connector). Of course, my question will be simple : Are bpm endpoint (bpm:///) AND events between endpoints planned for Camel like this is proposed within Mule ? Regards, Charles -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bpm-and-events-planned-in-Camel-%21-tp17106171s22882p17106171.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
