Apache Camel vs webMethods Trading Network

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Message brokering across different systems, with transactionality and the ability to have fine tuned control over what happens using Java (or other languages), instead of a heavy, proprietary languages.One situation that it doesn't fit very well (as far as I have experienced) is when your workflow requires significant data mapping. While possible when using Java tooling, some other visual data mapping tools in other integration frameworks are easier to work with.

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Engineer in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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webMethods Trading Networks is an excellent choice for a business-to-business (B2B) gateway platform, for sending and receiving messages to/from external trading partner organizations. It excels at making it easy to define new interfaces and provides robust mechanisms for ensuring successful message delivery and processing through automatic retries. We also use it successfully for all our application-to-application (A2A) integration, which many would believe is beyond the scope of what webMethods Trading Network is good for; however, we have made it work and it has been very successful in our organization. I would not recommend using webMethods Trading Network for integration that requires low-latency or high-bandwidth data transfers. It is much better suited to shipping reasonable sized XML or JSON or flat file messages (less than 100 mb) around in situations that do not need sub-second latency. If you have low-latency or high-bandwidth needs, you should use a product more focussed on eventing, such as Kafka, for example.

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Logistics & Supply Chain Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pros

Camel has an easy learning curve. It is fairly well documented and there are about 5-6 books on Camel.
There is a large user group and blogs devoted to all things Camel and the developers of Camel provide quick answers and have also been very quick to patch Camel, when bugs are reported.
Camel integrates well with well known frameworks like Spring, and other middleware products like Apache Karaf and Servicemix.
There are over 150 components for the Camel framework that help integrate with diverse software platforms.
Camel is also good for creating microservices.

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Surjit Sen

Senior Software Consultant at Randstad

Cox CommunicationsBroadcast Media, 10,001+ employees

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Document tracking
Efficient partner management
Set up trading partners with connectivity information

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Employee in Information Technology

Business Supplies and Equipment Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Open source solution relies on community for support
Lacks graphical user interface for message routing and transformation definitions
Relatively steep learning curve

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Professional in Information Technology

Logistics & Supply Chain Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Vendor is slow to add new features
Performance scales with underlying database performance
Use of My webMethods to administrate trading networks is clunky and slow

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Logistics & Supply Chain Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We chose Apache Camel because it was lightweight, easy to get started with and because it had a groovy DSL since we were a grails shop when we started using it.

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Akmal Muqeeth

Lead Software Engineer

BrighterInternet, 51-200 employees

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Ease of use and robustness of the product.

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Employee in Information Technology

Business Supplies and Equipment Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

huge cost saving and quick turn around in terms of extracting data from files and integrating them to our processes
ease the work with java objects
modernizing our API services
ease of using it with Apache's TomCat server

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Analyst in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 10,001+ employees

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Improved time to market for new A2A and B2B interfaces
Ability to support modern standards with B2B partners
Improved supportability and robustness when compared to the previous bespoke custom solution it replaced

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Logistics & Supply Chain Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Apache Camel vs webMethods Trading Network

Apache Camel

webMethods Trading Network

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Apache Camel

webMethods Trading Network

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Free/Freemium Version

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Entry-level set up fee?

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