Even if Camel provides a lot of ready-to-use components, you might want to create your own, for instance, to support a proprietary protocol.
It's pretty easy to create our own Camel component.
In this section, we will create a component named Packt implementing a simple socket communication.
First, we create the following Maven pom.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.packt.camel.component</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-packt</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>bundle</packaging>
<properties>
<camel.version>2.12.4</camel.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
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