Apache Camel Developer's Cookbook

Preface

Apache Camel is a Java framework for building system integrations.

Why, you may well ask, does anyone need such a framework? System integration is pretty much a solved problem. After all, we have been connecting various frontends to web services, message brokers, and databases for years! Surely this is a well-understood domain that requires no further abstractions.

Not quite.

Apache Camel, since its release in 2007, has disrupted the integration market much like the Spring Framework disrupted the Java EE market back in 2003. Camel enables a new way of doing, and thinking about, system integrations that results in much cleaner, easier to understand code, which in turn results in less work, less bugs, and easier maintenance. These are big claims, ...