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Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook

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Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook

Overview of this book

Apache Camel is a de-facto standard for developing integrations in Java, and is based on well-understood Enterprise Integration Patterns. It is used within many commercial and open source integration products. Camel makes common integration tasks easy while still providing the developer with the means to customize the framework when the situation demands it. Tasks such as protocol mediation, message routing and transformation, and auditing are common usages of Camel. Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook provides hundreds of best practice tips for using Apache Camel in a format that helps you build your Camel projects. Each tip or recipe provides you with the most important steps to perform along with a summary of how it works, with references to further reading if you need more information. This book is intended to be a reliable information source that is quicker to use than an Internet search. Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook is a quick lookup guide that can also be read from cover to cover if you want to get a sense of the full power of Apache Camel. This book provides coverage of the full lifecycle of creating Apache Camel-based integration projects, including the structure of your Camel code and using the most common Enterprise Integration patterns. Patterns like Split/Join and Aggregation are covered in depth in this book. Throughout this book, you will be learning steps to transform your data. You will also learn how to perform unit and integration testing of your code using Camel's extensive testing framework, and also strategies for debugging and monitoring your code. Advanced topics like Error Handling, Parallel Processing, Transactions, and Security will also be covered in this book. This book provides you with practical tips on using Apache Camel based on years of hands-on experience from hundreds of integration projects.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Writing a custom data type converter


If you find that you have written one or more processors that are just casting or converting from one data type to another, then writing a custom Camel Type Converter will help you reduce that boilerplate code. Camel attempts to automatically convert from one data type to another within a route, and allows you to extend its type converter registry with converters between known types.

The Type Converters are like cast operations in Java. If you want to do a more complex data format change, say from XML to JSON, then you should look at Chapter 4, Transformation, Camel's built in Data Format Marshallers (http://camel.apache.org/data-format.html), and the Writing a Custom Data Marshaller recipe.

This recipe will show you how to create and register a custom Type Converter that Camel will use to automatically convert those specified data types.

Getting ready

The Java code for this recipe is located in the org.camelcookbook.extend.typeconverter package. The Spring...