Hi We have some JIRA tickets about adding such functionality to camel-mina2 and also camel-netty. This would allow Camel to acts as a client and connect to a remote server, and receive messages coming in to a route.
Though we haven't had the time yet to implement such functionality. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Thorsten Kunz <t.k...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem that I need to solve and I would like to get a few ideas > about the best options on how to do it since I am new to Camel. > > So I do need to implement a gateway to consume XML based messages from a > server. Initially I thought that Netty Consumer mode sounds like it would > match but it needs to be an outgoing tcp connection to the server. Here is > how it works: > > There is a blackbox style server that is located somewhere performing some > kind of business logic. This server is listening on tcp port XYZ. Now if an > authorized IP address is connecting as a client to this port the server > immediately starts to dump XML debug messages to the connection. The client > doesn't need to do/send anything, just connect and then start to consume > the XML messages. > > Now Camel is supposed to be the client consumer and I need to implement a > gateway that connects to the server and read the XML messages from the tcp > session. The gateway should also auto-reconnect in case the blackbox server > was rebooted or crashed or whatever. > > Any good ideas about how to get this going? It would be very much > appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Thorsten -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- Red Hat, Inc. FuseSource is now part of Red Hat Email: cib...@redhat.com Web: http://fusesource.com Twitter: davsclaus Blog: http://davsclaus.com Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen
