Today organizations are having a large number of applications from different vendors or built in-house. They’re often maintained by different IT teams and serving different business functions. The need for their integration has been a constant challenge. To meet this challenge various products have been built and books written. One…

In this post I’m looking at the transformation a Camel project running as a standalone Java application shall take in order to run in an OSGi container. Managing Camel contexts/routes using Java main() methods is straightforward for application development and testing, but it’s not suitable for complex production deployments. For…

The Problem In this post I’m looking to solve the problem of consuming events from a Kafka topic using Camel to meet the following requirements: Exactly once delivery: without exception, all events must be written into a RDBMS table only once. 2. Consumer clustering: if a node goes down, processing should continue…

Microsoft SQL Server can often be found in the enterprises. A typical integration requirement is to send and receive message to/from a database table. …

As a framework Camel can be used to write applications in Java or XML DSLs. These can then be hosted in various ways like in a Java or Spring Boot application or Karaf OSGI container. Enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions are expected to provide specific capabilities like consistent data flow…

With IBM MQ widely used in the enterprise a common integration requirement is to send and receive message to/from an MQ queue. …

As lockdown restrictions are easily relaxed in the UK, it’s worth checking what the numbers tell us in early June 2020. We know there have not been enough tests to find all COVID-19 cases. This makes analysis uncertain, but it’s generally accepted that the “confirmed” cases are just the tip…

Application design in Azure can use a number of Azure constructs to protect against security threats. Is it possible to summarize much of these in a single picture? Given the scale of security seems unlikely. Perhaps if we leave out people identities and focus on back-end systems, the task becomes…

Both BizTalk and Apache Camel tackle the complexity of enterprise system integration. While their origins and ecosystems are very different there is a similarity between their core capabilities. There are many books and articles that go deep into the guts of each and analyze the pros and cons of choosing…