On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:03 PM, ychawla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> We are evaluating Camel for use in project that could potentially reach the
> whole State. There have been many arguments against using Camel and for
> 'rolling on our own' code. I find the arguments against Camel to not have
> merit.
>
> Please help me.
>
> Can someone post a list of companies or projects that use Apache camel? We
> already use Spring, Apache CXF, and I don't really see any real leap from
> these projects to Camel, but I need your help.
>
> If you could send links or even provide your own testimonial before
> tomorrow, it would be really helpful in making the case. I think the
> comfort level would increase if people realize that Camel will be here for
> the foreseeable future.
It's difficult to say what companies are using Camel, not only for
legal reasons (I personally know of many companies using it) but also
because it's freely downloadable by anyone. We don't track who
downloads it and who uses it, but it's not too difficult to cruise the
mailing lists and look at email addresses to find a few that are
recognizable ;-). Camel has been around for a year-and-a-half and has
an incredible rate of adoption and is a very vibrant and growing
project.
As for building it yourself, just compare the amount of code you'd
have to write yourself to bridge from reading files on a filesystem,
to calling web services, to posting to an FTP server, not to mention
the processing and transformation in-between. I've spoken about Camel
at many conferences and most people are amazed at the simplicity of
Camel, allowing them to throw away hundreds, sometimes thousands of
lines of hand-written code that is brittle anyway.
Here's a question I have asked many folks:
Are you in the business of creating tools to integrate protocols and
data formats, or are you in the business of making money by creating
business applications?
I'm sure you can guess the typical answer ;-).
Bruce
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