Service Registry for Apache Camel Applications

Question

A registry is a list of items with pointers for where to find the items, like the index on a database table or the card catalog for a library.

Correct me if I am wrong, from this definition, what I'd expect from a camel application registry is where a client application can (depending on the client protocol) do a lookup and based on metadata, selects a particular service and uses it as defined.

I am wondering if Apache Camel has anything close to this. Most of the service registries articles/implementations I have seen seems to address only SOAP protocols.

Regards.

Answer 1

You can use the REST API from camel-web to lookup routes and endpoint which is the "services" in Camel. http://camel.apache.org/web-console.html

In terms of a SOA service registry then you may look at other products which specialize in that such as Apache ZooKepper http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/

You can use ManagementStrategy SPI to hook into events in Camel and track services as they are created/started/stopped etc. Then you can bridge that to your SOA service registry product of choice.