Starting, stopping, suspending, and resuming routes in Karaf

Apache Camel provides users with fine-grained control of routes deployed inside a Camel Context, and as such, has provided Karaf with access to these controls. These management facilities are separate from OSGi's life cycle model, allowing users to select small portions of the Camel code that is currently being executed to start, stop, suspend, and resume operations.

Getting ready

Follow the instructions in the Listing Camel Contexts in Karaf recipe's Getting ready section for this recipe.

How to do it…

Managing Camel routes in Karaf is easy, and requires you to become familiar with four commands, which are as follows:

  • camel:route-start routeName: This command is used to start a route
  • camel:route-stop ...

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