First, I'm pretty new to camel (and drools) and this question teeters between
the two. I've combed the Drools forum for an answer to this question, but
the discussions there relate more to using camel within drools - they are
not camel centric. So, my question:
I'm trying to find out the best best to integrate a call to a drools server
into my camel route.
I stood up a drools server and I can send a java bean to it via small java
client app that builds the drools command then makes a call to the rest
service (using HTTPClient). The drools server looks at a few bean
attributes, sets a field accordingly and returns the result which I can
read.
Now, I'd like my camel application to use that service (basically a Content
Enricher) -- and I'll probably eventually route differently depending on the
return. I believe I can move the code that builds the drools command, etc.
from my little client app and into a method in my Bean. Then, I'd call that
bean method to send the response and another method to unmarshall/convert
it, like
...beanRef("myBean","sendToDrools").beanRef("myBean","convertDroolsResponse")....
It seems like I could use the cxf component to handle some of the data
transfer, but it seems like I would still need to build the drools command
and convert the results.
Isn't there a cleaner/better way? I've looked at the camel section in the
drools integration guide, but no help.
Any thoughts, best practices or references?
Thanks very much,
-J
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