Apache Camel has good support for type conversion and it is easy to add your own type converters. In this blog post I’ll show how to create a generic type converter using reflection. Type conversion is done by Camel either when you explicitly tell Camel to perform conversion or in some cases where Camel detects [...]

To learn more about Apache Camel I have implemented a non-trivial integration scenario using freely available SOAP web services to create a service that can return the weather at an airport. The webservices are: The Airport Information Webservice to find the location of an airport The National Digital Forecast Database Webservice provided by http://www.weather.gov/ to [...]

I was recently asked to develop an FTP client that could transmit files to various FTP servers as a part of a delivery system in a Java enterprise application. The requirements dictated a flexible implementation: Three different FTP protocols should be supported, namely FTP, FTPS and SFTP It should be possible to transmit different files [...]