8 Developing Camel projects

This chapter covers

  • Managing Camel projects with Maven
  • Developing Camel projects in the Eclipse IDE
  • Debugging with Camel
  • Creating custom components
  • Using the API component framework
  • Creating custom data formats

At this point, you should know a thing or two about how to develop Camel routes and how to take advantage of many Camel features. But do you know how to best start a Camel project from scratch? You could take an existing example and modify it to fit your use case, but that’s not always ideal. And what if you need to integrate with a system that isn’t supported out of the box by Camel?

This chapter shows you how to build your own Camel applications. We’ll go over the Maven archetype tooling that allows ...

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