| [[Whatisarouter-Whatisarouter]] |
| === What is a router? |
| |
| We often talk about that Camel is a mediation and routing framework; so |
| what exactly is a router and what does it do? |
| |
| Basically a router just consumes <<message-eip,Message>> exchanges |
| from some link:../endpoint.adoc[Endpoint], then sends them on to some other |
| link:../endpoint.adoc[Endpoint] using some kind of |
| link:../enterprise-integration-patterns.adoc[Enterprise Integration |
| Patterns]. |
| |
| For example a router could implement the |
| <<contentBasedRouter-eip,Content Based Router>> pattern, to route |
| from an endpoint to one or more destination endpoints using a |
| link:../predicate.adoc[Predicate] based on the message content. |
| |
| Typically a route or router consists of one or more consumers; either an |
| <<eventDrivenConsumer-eip,Event Driven Consumer>> or a |
| <<pollingConsumer-eip,Polling Consumer>> or possibly a |
| <<transactionalClient-eip,Transactional Client>>. Then there are one |
| or more link:../processor.adoc[Processor] instances which could send the |
| message to one or more endpoints. |
