Fun with Camel Web Console

I've been playing with Apache Camel lately. I came across the camel-web console earlier but just got around to play with the source.

I find the project interesting because:

• It provides a Restful API to the routes, end-points, components ... , using Jersey jax-rs RI
• Uses JAXB for xml request content
• Content-type representation include Graphvic DOT file and even route definition in Groovy

You can send message (http POST to endpoint Restful URI), as well as create/modify routes interactively. Great for quick verification of concepts.

I do have a couple minor problems when building and running from source (881214):

• The version (1.3-dev) of maven-jaxb-schemagen-plugin does not exists on java.net Maven 2 Repo. I needed to add the Fuse Repo (http://repo.fusesource.com/maven2/) to the pluginRepositories.
• mvn jetty:run failed with ClassNotFoundException on sitemesh PageFilter. mvn jetty:run-war works

Also as a side note, here is an interesting comment on Mule and Camel:

"Camel will overtake Mule in the next couple of years, easily"