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From: Richard Kettelerij <richardkettelerij@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 22:35:42 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Discussion] Unify prefixes http, jetty, servlet?
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Hi Christian,

I welcome every suggestion to simplify Camel but I'm not sure what benefit
this proposal will bring (considering the costs of maintaining backwards
compatibility).

More importantly I think you run the risk of introducing a "leaky
abstraction"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction). This proposal
hides the servlet and jetty concepts from the end user. Is that what we
really what? The user should still be aware he is using servlet/jetty
underneath since camel-servlet/camel-jetty need be available on the
classpath to get it all working. Also one should understand the
implications of servlet (i.e. the need to run Camel in a container) or
jetty to some extend when building integration solutions.

Regards,
Richard

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Christian Schneider <chris@die-schneider.net
> wrote:

> Some time ago I did some unification in CXF to make it easier for users to
> configure the different http transports.  I would like to do a similar
> thing for camel.
>
> Currently we have three different http components:
>
> camel-http : Only producer
> camel-jetty : Only consumer with embedded jetty
> camel-servlet : Only consumer with servlet from servlet container or OSGi
> Server
>
> This means people have to use three different prefixes.
>
> I would like to change this to only use the prefix http.
>
> Producer:
> to("http://myserver/mypath")
>
> Servlet consumer:
> from("/myservlet/mypath")
>
> Jetty consumer:
> from("http://myserver:myport/**mypath")
>
> The idea is to select the Endpoint type based on the URI and endpoint type
> but to hide this from the user.
>
> Christian
>
> --
> Christian Schneider
> http://www.liquid-reality.de
>
> Open Source Architect
> Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com
>
>

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