Configuring a CXFRS client used in a Camel route with Proxy server

[Seumas Soltysik]

Here is my question: How do I configure a cxfrs client in Camel route  
to be able to converse with a proxy server blocking access to a JAXRS  
endpoint?

I have done a fair bit of investigation into this and here is what I  
have as background information:

I have a route which routes to JAXRS endpoint that looks something  
like this:


  <!-- Defined the server endpoint to create the cxf-rs consumer -->
  <cxf:rsServer id="rsServer" address="http://localhost:9000";
     
serviceClass 
="org.apache.camel.component.cxf.jaxrs.testbean.CustomerService" />

  <!-- Defined the client endpoint to create the cxf-rs consumer -->
  <cxf:rsClient id="rsClient" address="http://localhost:9002";
     
serviceClass 
="org.apache.camel.component.cxf.jaxrs.testbean.CustomerService"/>

  <!-- The camel route context -->
  <camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/ 
spring">
    <route>
       <from uri="cxfrs://bean://rsServer"/>
       <to uri="cxfrs://bean://rsClient"/>
    </route>
  </camelContext>

However, the remote host is blocked by a Proxy server. Therefore I  
need to configure the cxfrs producer/client to talk to a Proxy server.  
If this was a standalone JAXRS client I would simply add this  
configuration element to the spring.xml used to configure the CXF bus  
used by the JAXRS client:

  <http-conf:conduit name="*.http-conduit">
    <http-conf:client ProxyServer="remote_host"  
ProxyServerPort="9090"/>
</http-conf:conduit>

However, adding this to the spring config used to initialize the Camel  
ApplicationContext has no effect since a default bus is created during  
the creation of the rsClient bean which does not have access to any  
configuration information in the Camel application context. From the  
schema for the cxfrs client, it appears that I can use the bus  
attribute to set my own bus(documentation is unclear on this point),  
however, this does not provide me with a simple solution as even if I  
define my own <cxf:bus> element to inject into the cxfrs client, I  
still have to be able to add the policy/config information to the bus  
for the client to use. To do this it looks like I would have to create  
my own CXF Feature to perform this injection and then set this Feature  
on the <cxf:bus> element.

Is there another solution that I am missing to be able to connect a  
cxfrs client in a camel route to a proxy server?

Regards,
Seumas