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An agile, distributed, containerized, and API-centric solution to integrate applications by transforming data, composing, and orchestrating services across hybrid infrastructures.
Apache Camel in Enterprise Integration
When solving integration scenarios, there are two possible ways forward. The first way is to adopt an integration tool to assist developers. Doing so means understanding the benefits of such technologies to effectively address well-known Enterprise Integration Patterns (or EIPs). The second way is giving developers the freedom to code their custom-made solutions.
An integration toolkit, like Apache Camel, is most recommended when having to create and sustain many projects within a team or organization. It allows users to define a common methodology across all projects, preventing a disparity of general-purpose languages and coding styles that brings fragmentation and costly maintenance.
What are Enterprise Integration Patterns?
The world keeps accelerating. New processes are connected every day to integrate and interact with existing digital products and services. In a nutshell, information makes a journey from sources to destinations, following data flows that traverse a landscape of distributed systems.
This journey varies from case to case, but over time, experience has shown they can mostly be framed into recognizable Enterprise Integration Patterns (or EIPs).
Applying Enterprise Integration Patterns helps developers navigate the challenges of integrating systems without having to reinvent the wheel.
What is Apache Camel?
Apache Camel is an open source integration framework that implements EIPs with mature and robust ready-to-use building blocks, enabling developers to rapidly create data flows and easily test and maintain them.
To the right is an example of a typical integration pattern. How do you process messages that are semantically equivalent, but arrive in a different format?
Let's use a Normalizer to route each message type through a custom Message Translator so that the resulting messages match a common format. The Normalizer uses a Message Router to route the incoming message to the correct Message Translator.
Integration capabilities and components
Red Hat Integration is a suite of runtimes, frameworks, and services for building applications natively on Red Hat OpenShift. This suite is defined by five major capabilities: API management, enterprise integration, events and messaging, data integration, and tooling and metadata. These capabilities and their underlying components simplify cloud-native development that connects systems.
Groups of runtimes, frameworks, and services for building microservice architectures on top of Red Hat OpenShift. These capabilities and their underlying components simplify the development of cloud-native services to expose and interconnect.
Groups of runtimes, frameworks, and services for building microservice architectures on top of Red Hat OpenShift. These capabilities and their underlying components simplify the development of cloud-native services to expose and interconnect.
Apache Camel is very versatile and easily fits into most scenarios where data moves from sources to destinations. Below, you will find a number of popular use cases in which Apache Camel is the technology of choice.
Here are more advanced use cases where Apache Camel also excels in providing the needed functionality.
