How does Camel compare to Synapse?Camel is designed to work with pretty much all kinds of transport, in particular its been designed from the ground up to work nicely inside a web services stack, JMS or inside a JBI based ESB as well as working with any Data Format - not just SOAP - as well as implementing all the Enterprise Integration Patterns in both Java and Spring XML. Whereas Synapse is more focussed on being a mediation engine for Axis 2; assuming a web services environment with mostly SOAP as the payloads. A more detailed write up is here (with a slight Synapse bias since the author mostly uses Synapse |
