| [[IsCamelanESB-IsCamelanESB]] |
| = Is Camel an ESB? |
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| Typically vendors claim practically everything is an ESB these days, so |
| the answer is probably yes :smile: |
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| However our view is that an ESB is more of a container of integration |
| components, so we view http://servicemix.apache.org[Apache ServiceMix] |
| to be a true ESB based around OSGi (and optionally JBI) to provide a |
| standards based integration platform of components. |
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| We view Camel as being a rule based routing & mediation engine which can |
| be used inside a full blown ESB, a message broker or a web services |
| smart client. Though if you want to, you could consider that Camel is a |
| small, lightweight embeddable ESB since it can provide many of the |
| common ESB services like smart routing, transformation, mediation, |
| monitoring, orchestration, etc. |