On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Claus Ibsen <claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:40 AM, megachucky <megachu...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> Just for fun (and learning by doing), I have written a Salesforce component >> for Apache Camel. It is not feature-complete, just some methods of the >> Salesforce API are supported. >> > > Ah cool. This would be a nice addition. > >> There are two alternatives for communicating with Salesforce: >> >> 1) Use Java API (this is what it did for my component): My favorite, but the >> user has to create a company-specific WSDL file and generate Java classes. >> See >> http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api/Content/sforce_api_quickstart_steps.htm >> >> 2) Use REST API: Do simple HTTP(S) calls. >> >> IMO, using Java API is much more comfortable for development. However, I >> think it is ugly and a no-go that every user of the salesforce component has >> to create its own classes ?! If I write a component which should be added to >> an upcoming Camel release, then I have to use REST API, right? >> What API / Library do you have to use for doing REST calls from a Java >> component? >> > > Yeah REST seems the way projects go now for offering service APIs. > > > In Camel there is the > - camel-restlet > - camel-cxf RS (dont support async client invocations) > > > And then camel-ahc. > http://camel.apache.org/ahc > > I like this AHC library. Its very lightweight and async > https://github.com/sonatype/async-http-client#readme > > And its docs, there is a menu with user guides and whatnot > http://sonatype.github.com/async-http-client/ > >
And I guess there is also the Spring Rest Template as well. I dont know if its tied to a specific http client. I suspects its using the old http client 3.1, that is not async. > > > >> ----- >> Best regards, >> Kai Wähner >> >> Twitter: @KaiWaehner >> Email: kont...@kai-waehner.de >> Blog: www.kai-waehner.de/blog >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Salesforce-Component-Design-Questions-tp5713724.html >> Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > -- > 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 -- 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
