Hessian Data Format provides marshalling an unmarshialling using Hessian protocol developed by Caucho.

Hessian is a platform and language independent, binary serialization protocol.

Using Hessian Data Format

Maven setup

Include following dependency in your pom.xml file:

<dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
 <artifactId>camel-hessian</artifactId>
 <version>x.y.z</version>
</dependency>

replacing x.y.z with your version of Camel core.

Java DSL

Marshalling

from("direct:in")
 .marshal().hessian();

Unmarshalling

from("direct:back")
 .unmarshal().hessian();

Spring DSL

Marshalling

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
 <route>
 <from uri="direct:in"/>
 <marshal ref="hessian"/>
 </route>
</camelContext>

Unmarshalling

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
 <route>
   <from uri="direct:back"/>
   <unmarshal ref="hessian"/>
 </route>
</camelContext>

Dependencies

Hessian Data Format internally relies on Hessian library provided by Caucho

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.caucho</groupId>
  <artifactId>hessian</artifactId>
  <version>4.0.38</version>
</dependency>