Apache Camel: Route from camel tomcat servlet to cxfbean component - apache-camel

Question

Problem Description:
I am failing to route from my camel servlet to a cxfbean. Route initialization fails with the following error message:
"Failed to create route route1 at: >>> To[cxfbean:fooEndpoint] <<< in route:
Route[[From[servlet:///?servletName=BwsServlet]] -> [To[cxfb... because of Failed to resolve
endpoint: cxfbean://fooEndpoint due to: null".
The servlet starts fine without the cxfbean.
UPDATED: Please note that I intend to use a Camel Cxf Bean Component as opposed to a Camel Cxf Bean.
What I want to achieve:
I am running a camel servlet within Tomcat. I have a bean which implements my webservice interface (generated from WSDL by CXF). I want to process the XML message bodies before passing them on to this webservice bean. I would like to use cxf bean component as opposed to a cxf endpoint bean, since I do not want to have my cxf endpoint listen on a network port in addition to the already running camel servlet.
How my code looks like:
My camel-config.xml looks like this:
<bean id="bwsRouteBuilder" class="local.com.foo.BwsRouteBuilder"/>
<bean id="fooEndpoint" class="local.com.foo.FooBws"/>
<camel:camelContext id="bws">
<camel:routeBuilder ref="bwsRouteBuilder"/>
</camel:camelContext>
My route builder (written in Java DSL) looks like this:
public void configure() throws Exception {
from("servlet:///?servletName=BwsServlet")
// some processing of message here
.to("cxfbean:fooEndpoint");
}
UPDATED: Note the cxfbean URI format in the above code as defined here.
My web.xml looks like this:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>BwsServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.camel.component.servlet.CamelHttpTransportServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>BwsServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
camel-cxf is included as dependency in my pom.xml.
Where I looked at so far for help: I was following the documentation at Apache Camel cxfbean description and followed stackoverflow. I hope my question is not a no-brainer to answer, I am new to Camel.
Many thanks in advance for your thoughts

Answer 1

If you want to use a cxf bean you have to write "cxf:bean:fooEndpoint" in your route (you have forget : between cxf and bean).
public void configure() throws Exception {
from("servlet:///?servletName=BwsServlet")
// some processing of message here
.to("cxf:bean:fooEndpoint");
}