Spring Boot Example with Camel exposing REST services using Apache CXF, collecting distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry
This example illustrates how to use Spring Boot with Camel and Apache CXF implementing REST services using bottom-up approach.
If you are using REST services directly from Camel and you want to use OpenTelemetry please refer to the dedicated example
There are 3 services which communicate each other, starting from the random
service:
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random: the main service, exposes the entry point REST service and store the results
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even: the service that verifies the even numbers
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odd: the service that verifies the odd numbers
moreover there is a common module containing common classes
You can build this example using the following command; it will also download the OpenTelemetry agent used to instrument the applications:
$ mvn package -Potel-agent
Run docker-compose to start all the needed services:
$ docker-compose -f containers/docker-compose.yml up -d
the command runs:
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minio as application storage
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opentelemetry-collector to receive the generated Trace/Span
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Jaeger to visualize the traces
Run each services on separated terminals:
$ source containers/env.sh \ && java -javaagent:target/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar \ -Dotel.service.name=random \ -jar rest-cxf-otel-random/target/*.jar
$ source containers/env.sh \ && java -javaagent:target/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar \ -Dotel.service.name=even \ -Dserver.port=8081 \ -jar rest-cxf-otel-even/target/*.jar
$ source containers/env.sh \ && java -javaagent:target/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar \ -Dotel.service.name=odd \ -Dserver.port=8082 \ -jar rest-cxf-otel-odd/target/*.jar
After the Spring Boot applications have been started, you can open the following URL in your web browser http://localhost:8080/services/ to access the list of services, including WADL definition
You can also access the REST endpoint from the command line:
i.e. to generate 5 random numbers run:
$ curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/services/api/play/5 -s | jq .
The command will produce an output like:
{
"result": {
"ODD": [
{
"number": 229,
"type": "ODD"
},
{
"number": 585,
"type": "ODD"
}
],
"EVEN": [
{
"number": 648,
"type": "EVEN"
},
{
"number": 670,
"type": "EVEN"
},
{
"number": 846,
"type": "EVEN"
}
]
},
"evenCount": 3,
"oddCount": 2
}
Now in the Jaeger UI http://localhost:16686 the traces will be available, both from Camel and from CXF instrumentation
The services can be stopped pressing [CTRL] + [C]
in the shell, and the containers can be stopped with
$ docker-compose -f containers/docker-compose.yml down
The dependency org.apache.cxf:cxf-integration-tracing-opentelemetry
provides org.apache.cxf.tracing.opentelemetry.jaxrs.OpenTelemetryFeature
that instruments the OpenTelemetry API implemented in the java agent.
The feature is injected in the Spring context
link:rest-cxf-otel-common/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/springboot/cxf/otel/CxfConfig.java[role=include]
and then it is configured in the Camel route as provider in the cxfrs
endpoint
link:rest-cxf-otel-random/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/springboot/cxf/otel/CamelRouter.java[role=include]
When the feature is enabled it is possible to add custom tags or logs using TracerContext
from CXF
link:rest-cxf-otel-random/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/springboot/cxf/otel/RandomService.java[role=include]
link:rest-cxf-otel-random/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/springboot/cxf/otel/RandomServiceImpl.java[role=include]
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