Does Apache Camel work only with Apache CXF or Spring-WS?

Question

I am trying to work on a PoC to replace an IBM WESB Proxy mediation (Exposed as a web service, Receives the soap request, Invokes different other Web Services based on the Soap Header passed in the request).

These web services are built using JAX-RPC and Spring framework running in WAS 7 container.

Is it possible to use Camel for this usecase? I don't want to migrate the underlying web services to CXF or SpringWS yet.

Does Camel have any URI's to solve this purpose? (like a web service adapter to call other non-CXF/non-SpringWS web services)

Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

First thing - If it is a RPC /ENCODED web service then you CANNOT call it even with cxf.There are ways that you can modify the rpc wsdl to use doc/literal but I would not suggest using that approach. The simplest way to do this if you do not want to use cxf component or spring-ws is to create a java bean to invoke the Axis web service using the generated stubs.