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How does Camel compare to Synapse?

We are Camel developers so take what you read here with a pinch of salt. If you want to read a less biased comparison try reading this review which has a slight Synapse bias since the author mostly uses Synapse

However we think the main differences are:

• 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 - both of which are very popular too
• Camel is designed from the ground up around Enterprise Integration Patterns - having a EIP pattern language implemented in Java, Spring XML, Scala and Groovy as well as EIP Visualisations
• Camel is designed to work with pretty much all kinds of transport

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• as well as working with any Data Format

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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.