How yo use Camel as a router between two applications

Question

I am new to fuse esb,I have a requirement where I have two web applications which will be in different servers (applications will be in different Jboss servers and Fuse will be in another physical machine) and they need to communicate using REST protocol via the fuse esb,I know that I have to use camel for routing the incoming request from one application to the another application,can any please share some thoughts or any link where I can get some information.I am frankly clueless at the moment any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Answer 1

I bet you have some requirement of exposing the REST API inside FUSE to achieve loose coupling.

You could use CXFRS to expose your REST interface if you need to parse the datatypes sent to Java and maybe map them to something else.

Another, somewhat simpler, component is Restlet. It allows you to deal with most aspects of REST style interfaces, such as URI parsing.

Since REST is plain HTTP, in some cases you can come a long way using the servlet/http4 components, maybe to simply proxy or route HTTP requests.

In any case, read up on those components and come back with more specific questions, should you have any