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Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook
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Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook

by Scott Cranton, Jakub Korab
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
9h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Load balancing across a number of endpoints

When you need the ability to distribute a sequence of messages between a predefined set of endpoints, the Load Balancer EIP is a good choice. This is useful for tasks such as web service load balancing at the application level, when a hardware load balancer is not available for use. This EIP allows you to plug in a number of strategies to define how the messages should be distributed amongst the endpoints.

This recipe will show you how to load balance (route) a message across a set of endpoints using a specified policy (for example, round robin).

Getting ready

The Java code for this recipe is located in the org.camelcookbook.routing.loadbalancer package. The Spring XML files are located under src/main/resources/META-INF/spring ...

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ISBN: 9781782170303