Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook

Using Camel in a Java application

Camel is a framework that is composed of a set of JARs, much as any other library that lives alongside your code. If you wanted to run Camel from the command line, you would define the libraries used within as a list of JARs to be considered by the java and javac command-line tools.

Note

The supporting code for this book uses Camel within the context of Maven projects that build standalone JARs. The JARs are not meant to be executed themselves, rather the Maven project structure is used as a convenient harness for driving JUnit tests that demonstrate the behavior being described.

The Camel libraries are broken up into two categories:

• Core set of artifacts containing the runtime, test support classes, and build tools. ...