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How does Camel compare to Synapse?
- the Camel community is way more active according to the nabble statistics (Synapse is inside the Apache Web Services bar) or by comparing Camel and Synapse on markmail.
- Camel is the default routing engine included in Apache ActiveMQ for Message Orientated middleware with EIP and Apache ServiceMix the ESB based around OSGi and JBI at Apache
- Camel is designed to work with pretty much all kinds of transport, in particular its been designed from the ground up to work nicely inside a web services stack, JMS or inside a JBI based ESB as well as working with any Data Format - not just SOAP - as well as implementing all the Enterprise Integration Patterns in both Java and Spring XML.
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- When we first looked at Synapse it was based around Axis 2 and WS-* though apparently thats no longer the case.
- more detailed write up is here (with a slight Synapse bias since the author mostly uses Synapse