Chapter 6. Serverless Integration Patterns Using Apache Camel-K

Important

It is highly recommended that you have reviewed and completed the recipes from Chapters 3 and 4 of the cookbook before reading this chapter.

The recipes in this chapter will assume that you are fluent in those concepts and that you have properly installed those prerequisites.

Within the average large IT organization, it is very rare that you would ever build a new application that would live in total isolation, one that would be completely detached from all other old or new systems. Many real-time use cases demand that the old and new systems share and exchange data.

Apache Camel is an open source framework that helps you integrate systems. Apache Camel allows the integrated systems to produce and consume data between them. It provides over 300 components that include integration connectors to sources such as TCP, ActiveMQ, FTP, and Salesforce.com, which makes it easier to integrate heterogeneous systems. Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) provide solutions to many common integration problems. Apache Camel provides implementations of these patterns via its rich Domain Specific Language (DSL), thereby making it easier for the developers to apply the EIP easily.

Apache Camel-K aims at simplifying the programming and deployment model for Apache Camel integrations. By working with Apache Camel-K, the integration developers can now focus on writing their integrations using the Camel DSL in Java, JavaScript, ...

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