Apache Camel OSGi Services Component

1. What is it?
2. How to use?
   1. Endpoint parameters
      1. Producer parameters
      2. Consumer parameters
   2. Default way of communication between OSGi bundles
   3. Multicasting to multiple OSGi bundles
   4. Roundrobin load balancing between multiple OSGi bundles
   5. Random load balancing between multiple OSGi bundles
   6. Other ways to use the component
      1. Using multiple producers to publish exchanges to one or multiple consumers
      2. Using any camel processor to process exchanges
3. License

What is it?

This is Apache Camel component that provides different ways of communication between camel contexts which are located in different OSGi bundles.

Currently 4 ways of communication are supported: default, multicast, roundrobin, random.

The component allows equally well to communicate between endpoints that are located in the same camel context in a single bundle, between endpoints that are located in different camel contexts in a single bundle, between endpoints that are located in different camel contexts in separate bundles.

How to use?

All the examples below are available as integration tests under the directory tests.

Endpoint parameters

Producer parameters

As a rule parameters specified on the producing endpoint will be used to create OSGi filter that later will be used to lookup consuming endpoints in the OSGi service registry, so it's possible to specify any kind of parameters, for instance in the following example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:start" />
            <to uri="osgi:consumer?param1=value1&amp;param2=value2&amp;param3=value3" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

OSGi filter (&(param1=value1)(param2=value2)(param3=value3)) will be created to lookup all the consuming endpoints.

Consumer parameters

The parameters specified on the consuming endpoints will be used as OSGi service properties when publishing this endpoint into the OSGi service registry. So in the following example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="osgi:consumer?param1=value1&amp;param2=value2&amp;param3=value3" />
            <to uri="mock:finish" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

the published OSGi service will have properties param1 with value value1, param2 with value value2, param3 with value value3.

Default way of communication between OSGi bundles

The default way of communication uses standard OSGi behavior to select a most actual endpoint, published into the OSGi service registry, i.e. the service with the highest ranking.

In order to use such a communication define the route like the following one in the producing bundle:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:start" />
            <to uri="osgi:consumer" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

In the consuming bundles define the routes like this:

Bundle1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="osgi:consumer?service.ranking=0" />
            <to uri="mock:finish" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

Bundle2:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="osgi:consumer?service.ranking=100" />
            <to uri="mock:finish" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

In this case an exchange will be delivered to the endpoint with the highest ranking in the Bundle2.

Multicasting to multiple OSGi bundles

The component allows sending exchanges to multiple endpoints using MulticastProcessor providing pub-sub way of communication.

Predefined consumer parameters

Name	Default	Description
aggregationStrategy		Refers to an AggregationStrategy to be used to assemble the replies from the consumers, into a single outgoing message. By default the last reply is used as the outgoing message.
parallelProcessing	false	If enables then sending messages to the multicasts occurs concurrently. Note the caller thread will still wait until all messages has been fully processed, before it continues. Its only the sending and processing the replies from the multicasts which happens concurrently.
executorService		Refers to a custom Thread Pool to be used for parallel processing. Notice if you set this option, then parallel processing is automatic implied, and you do not have to enable that option as well.
shutdownExecutorService	false	Whether to shutdown the explicitly specified executor service when shutting down the endpoint. If executor service is default, i.e. it's has not been specified by means of executorService parameter but parallelProcessit is true the executor service will be shutted down any way.
streaming	false	If enabled then Camel will process replies out-of-order, i.e. in the order they come back. If disabled, Camel will process replies in the same order as multicasted.
stopOnException	false	Whether or not to stop continue processing immediately when an exception occurred. If disable, then Camel will send the message to all multicasts regardless if one of them failed. You can deal with exceptions in the AggregationStrategy class where you have full control how to handle that.
timeout		Sets a total timeout specified in millis. If the Multicast hasn't been able to send and process all replies within the given timeframe, then the timeout triggers and the Multicast breaks out and continues.
onPrepare		Refers to a custom Processor to prepare the copy of the Exchange each multicast will receive. This allows you to do any custom logic, such as deep-cloning the message payload if that's needed etc.

Note, that these parameters will not be exported into the OSGi service registry as part of the consuming endpoint publishing, but all the other parameters will be.

In order to use such a communication define the route like the following one in the producing bundle:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:start" />
            <to uri="osgi:multicast:consumer?aggregationStrategy=#aggregationStrategy" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
    <bean id="aggregationStrategy" class="org.apache.camel.processor.aggregate.GroupedExchangeAggregationStrategy" />
</blueprint>

In the consuming bundles define the routes like this:

Bundle1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="osgi:consumer" />
            <to uri="mock:finish" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

Bundle2:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="osgi:consumer" />
            <to uri="mock:finish" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

In this case the exchange will be delivered to all the published consumer endpoints.

Roundrobin load balancing between multiple OSGi bundles

The component allows sending exchanges to a single endpoint using round robin style of communication in the same way as RoundRobinLoadBalancer.

In order to use such a communication define the route like the following one in the producing bundle:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:start" />
            <to uri="osgi:roundrobin:consumer" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

In the consuming bundles define the routes like this:

Bundle1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="osgi:consumer" />
            <to uri="mock:finish" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

Bundle2:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="osgi:consumer" />
            <to uri="mock:finish" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

In this case the exchange will be delivered to endpoints in all bundles in roundrobin fashion.

Random load balancing between multiple OSGi bundles

The component allows sending exchanges to a single endpoint using random style of communication in the same way as RandomLoadBalancer.

In order to use such a communication define the route like the following one in the producing bundle:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:start" />
            <to uri="osgi:random:consumer" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

In the consuming bundles define the routes like this:

Bundle1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="osgi:consumer" />
            <to uri="mock:finish" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

Bundle2:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="osgi:consumer" />
            <to uri="mock:finish" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

In this case the exchange will be delivered to endpoints in all bundles in random fashion.

Other ways to use the component

As the component uses OSGi services to communicate between producer and consumer, following features are available:

1. Multiple producers can send an exchange to one or multiple consumers
2. Any camel processor (even not within a route) can be used as consumer

Using multiple producers to publish exchanges to one or multiple consumers

To use the following feature just deploy multiple OSGi bundles with producing endpoints and one or multiple OSGi bundles that will consume published exchanges.

Note that the bundles with the producers can use any of the following ways to publish the exchanges: default, multicast, roundrobin, random.

Bundle1 with the first producer:

<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:start" />
            <to uri="osgi:multicast:consumer" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

Bundle2 with another producer:

<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:start" />
            <to uri="osgi:consumer" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

Bundle3 that will consume exchanges:

<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="osgi:consumer" />
            <to uri="mock:finish" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

That's all. Now exchanges produced by Bundle1 will be sent to all the consumers and exchanges produced by Bundle2 will be sent to the consumer with the highest ranking.

Using any camel processor to process exchanges

Any camel processor can be published into the OSGi service registry to process exchanges.

The processor must be published with the camelOsgiEndpointName service property that is equal to the name of producing endpoint.

For example, the name of the following endpoints osgi:consumer, osgi:multicast:consumer, osgi:roundrobin:consumer, osgi:random:consumer is considered to be consumer.

Bundle1 with a producer:

<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:start" />
            <to uri="osgi:multicast:consumer?aggregationStrategy=#aggregationStrategy" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
    <bean id="aggregationStrategy" class="org.apache.camel.processor.aggregate.GroupedExchangeAggregationStrategy" />
</blueprint>

Bundle2 with a camel route that consumes exchanges:

<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
        http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint/camel-blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
        <route id="consumer1">
            <from uri="osgi:consumer" />
            <to uri="mock:finish" />
        </route>
    </camelContext>
</blueprint>

Bundle3 with ordinary camel processor published into the OSGi service registry:

<blueprint
    xmlns="http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0 http://www.osgi.org/xmlns/blueprint/v1.0.0/blueprint.xsd
    ">
    <service auto-export="interfaces">
        <service-properties>
            <entry key="camelOsgiEndpointName" value="consumer" />
        </service-properties>
        <bean class="org.apache.camel.osgi.service.itest.OsgiMulticastSimpleProcessorTestProcessor"/>
    </service>
</blueprint>

And here is the source of the published processor:

public class OsgiMulticastSimpleProcessorTestProcessor implements Processor {
    @Override
    public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception {
        Message in = exchange.getIn();
        in.setBody(in.getBody() + "-reply");
    }
}

License

The component is distributed under Apache License 2.0.