Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook

Using external properties in Camel routes

One of the many nice features in Spring is the ability to use property placeholders such as ${database.url} to externalize information outside the application in a properties file. This allows your application's deployable artifacts to be built once and move through environments such as development, system test, UAT, and production, each time changing their behavior based on those external values. Camel provides a corresponding mechanism that you can use to externalize values used within routes.

This recipe will show you an approach for externalizing values, such as host name and port number, such that those values can be changed independent of the routing code.

Getting ready

Define a propertyPlaceholder ...