spring-ws，CXF，soap（camel component）调用Web服务之间有什么区别？

Question

i am new to camel? i am not able to distinguish between camel web-service component so please help me to find out difference between those component and also suggest that in which situation which component is better to use.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Camel SOAP is not a component but a data format http://camel.apache.org/soap.html it's used for marshaling and unmarshaling SOAP payloads.

Spring-WS http://camel.apache.org/spring-web-services.html uses Spring Web Services to provide client and server side SOAP support.

Camel-CXF http://camel.apache.org/cxf.html uses Apache CXF to provide client and server side SOAP support.

Camel-CXF is my goto tool when I have to deal with SOAP. It's a mature and very full featured component (and underlying library). The only time I use Spring-WS is if I'm dealing with very outdated SOAP that is using RPC encoding which CXF doesn't support.