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Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook
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Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook

by Scott Cranton, Jakub Korab
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
9h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Setting breakpoints in your routes

Camel's ability to allow you to create route "recipes" (definitions) is very powerful, but it can make traditional debugging difficult. You cannot easily set a breakpoint on a line of Spring XML. Likewise, setting a breakpoint in your RouteBuilder.configure() method will not yield the results you want as it only gets called once at startup when your route definition is parsed into a runtime route (other code).

This recipe will show you how, in your unit tests, to define methods that will be called before and after every processor step, giving you a line of Java code where you can set breakpoints to more easily debug your code.

Getting ready

The Java code for this recipe is located in the org.camelcookbook.monitoring.debug ...

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ISBN: 9781782170303