How to switch the CXF consumer between HTTP and HTTPS without touching the Spring configuration?

You can find general information how to secure your Camel CXF Consumer with HTTPS here.

A simple Camel CXF Consumer configuration which use the \http:conduit configuration to enable SSL and an external properties file for all environment specific configurations could looks like:

bundle-context.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:ctx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
  xmlns:camel="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring"
  xmlns:camel-cxf="http://camel.apache.org/schema/cxf"
  xmlns:http="http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configuration"
  xmlns:sec="http://cxf.apache.org/configuration/security"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
    http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd
    http://camel.apache.org/schema/osgi http://camel.apache.org/schema/osgi/camel-osgi.xsd
    http://camel.apache.org/schema/cxf http://camel.apache.org/schema/cxf/camel-cxf.xsd
    http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configuration http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/configuration/http-conf.xsd
    http://cxf.apache.org/configuration/security http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/configuration/security.xsd
    ">

  <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml" />
  <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-soap.xml" />
  <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-http-jetty.xml" />

  <ctx:property-placeholder location="classpath:orderEntry.cfg" />

  <camel-cxf:cxfEndpoint id="orderEntryEndpoint"
    address="${endpointUri}"
    serviceClass="com.company.product.OrderEntryService"
    endpointName="ssp:OrderEntry"
    serviceName="ssp:OrderEntryService"
    wsdlURL="META-INF/orderEntry/orderEntry.wsdl"
    xmlns:ssp="http://www.company.com/product/orderEntry/service/1" />

  <http:conduit name="{http://www.company.com/product/orderEntry/service/1}OrderEntry.http-conduit">
    <http:tlsClientParameters disableCNCheck="true">
      <sec:trustManagers>
        <sec:keyStore type="JKS" password="${trustStore.password}" file="${trustStore.file}"/>
      </sec:trustManagers>
      <sec:cipherSuitesFilter>
        <sec:include>.*_EXPORT_.*</sec:include>
        <sec:include>.*_EXPORT1024_.*</sec:include>
        <sec:include>.*_WITH_DES_.*</sec:include>
        <sec:include>.*_WITH_NULL_.*</sec:include>
        <sec:exclude>.*_DH_anon_.*</sec:exclude>
      </sec:cipherSuitesFilter>
    </http:tlsClientParameters>
  </http:conduit>

  <camel:camelContext trace="true">
    <camel:routeBuilder ref="orderEntryRoute" />
  </camel:camelContext>

  <bean id="orderEntryRoute" class="com.company.product.OrderEntryRoute" />
</beans>

The environment specific configurations are externalized into a properties file:

orderEntry.cfg

endpointUri=https://localhost:8181/OrderEntry
trustStore.password=password
trustStore.file=etc/myApp.ts

With this configuration, you Camel CXF consumer connects with HTTPS to the web service provider. If you need to change the protocol to HTTP, maybe for tracing/debugging reasons, change the endpointUri property in your properties file to e.g. http://localhost:8080/OrderEntry. That’s all! Isn’t it easy? Apache CXF detects that you "only" use HTTP and instantiates a HttpURLConnectionFactoryImpl instead of a HttpsURLConnectionFactory.

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