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Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook

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Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook

Overview of this book

Apache Camel is a de-facto standard for developing integrations in Java, and is based on well-understood Enterprise Integration Patterns. It is used within many commercial and open source integration products. Camel makes common integration tasks easy while still providing the developer with the means to customize the framework when the situation demands it. Tasks such as protocol mediation, message routing and transformation, and auditing are common usages of Camel. Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook provides hundreds of best practice tips for using Apache Camel in a format that helps you build your Camel projects. Each tip or recipe provides you with the most important steps to perform along with a summary of how it works, with references to further reading if you need more information. This book is intended to be a reliable information source that is quicker to use than an Internet search. Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook is a quick lookup guide that can also be read from cover to cover if you want to get a sense of the full power of Apache Camel. This book provides coverage of the full lifecycle of creating Apache Camel-based integration projects, including the structure of your Camel code and using the most common Enterprise Integration patterns. Patterns like Split/Join and Aggregation are covered in depth in this book. Throughout this book, you will be learning steps to transform your data. You will also learn how to perform unit and integration testing of your code using Camel's extensive testing framework, and also strategies for debugging and monitoring your code. Advanced topics like Error Handling, Parallel Processing, Transactions, and Security will also be covered in this book. This book provides you with practical tips on using Apache Camel based on years of hands-on experience from hundreds of integration projects.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


In this chapter, we will be looking at a number of ways of extending Camel with your own Java code, and invoking Camel routes from your Java code.

Camel was designed to make it very easy to work with existing Java code, and to make it straightforward to invoke Camel through your code without a lot of boilerplate code typically involved in using the underlying technologies such as JDBC, JMS, and others commonly used in integration.

This chapter will explore how your Java code can send and receive message data in the form of Java parameters and return types. It will discuss how your code can be reused to inform Camel routing decisions and message processing. We will cover how to go about creating re-useable Camel abstractions that make it even easier for your team to perform common message translations, and data type conversions, that are repeated throughout your integrations.

A number of Camel architectural concepts are used throughout this chapter. There is a broader overview of...