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How does Camel compare to Mule?

I guess from 30,000 feet they're kinda similar beasts; they're both kinds of routing/mediation engines. The main differences are as follows

  • Camel uses a Java DSL in addition to Spring XML for configuring the routing rules and providing Enterprise Integration Patterns
  • Camel's API is smaller & cleaner (IMHO) and is closely aligned with the APIs of JBI, CXF and JMS; based around message exchanges (with in and optional out messages) which more closely maps to REST, WS, WSDL & JBI than the UMO model Mule is based on
  • Camel allows the underlying transport details to be easily exposed (e.g. the JmsExchange, JbiExchange, HttpExchange objects expose all the underlying transport information & behaviour if its required). See How doe sthe Camel API compare to
  • Camel supports an implicit Type Converter in the core API to make it simpler to connect components together requiring different types of payload & headers
  • Camel uses the Apache 2 License rather than Mule's more restrictive commercial license
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