On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Raul Kripalani <r...@evosent.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > A fair number of users rely on Camel for business orchestration, with > varying degrees of complexity. > > One shortcoming of Camel compared to BPEL is that you can't embed > assignment and field-focused transformation rules, like you can do with the > BPEL Assign activity. With XML payloads, I would love to copy, transfer, > transform values from a source to an origin, without having to write an > external resource (XSLT, XQuery, Velocity template, etc.). Take a look at > the data manipulation features in BPEL [1]. > > What do you think? > > Also, something that's missing is running transformation scripts contained > in files. Right now, we can only embed Groovy, JS, JRuby, etc. scripts > inside Expressions or Predicates. I'd love to be able to create an endpoint > like: "groovy:file:/opt/resources/transformMessage.groovy", and have Camel > take care of the appropriate variable bindings to make the Exchange, > Headers, Properties, Context, etc. available to the script. >
This is already supported, see the language component http://camel.apache.org/language It can load the script from resources. And many of the languages have details from the exchange/message/camel context bound to the script language. eg as we talk about here http://camel.apache.org/scripting-languages.html > Does anyone have experience with Spring's support for Dynamic Languages in > this context? [2]. Maybe having Spring take care of plugging in the script > so that it's referenceable as a normal bean? > > Regards, > Raúl. > > --- > *Raúl Kripalani * > Enterprise Architect, Program Manager, Open Source Integration specialist > http://about.me/raulkripalani | http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani > http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk > > [1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11036_01/integrate.1013/b28981/manipdoc.htm > [2] > http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/reference/dynamic-language.html -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- FuseSource Email: cib...@fusesource.com Web: http://fusesource.com Twitter: davsclaus, fusenews Blog: http://davsclaus.com Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen
