Top 6 features you need to know about

Before we jump into the main content, we should learn a few key terms that will be used frequently when using Apache Camel.

A little bit of terminology

In order to go further, we need to elaborate on some concepts that are very crucial to how Apache Camel operates. We will be using these throughout the book, so we will explain them here.

As message and message-based communication is the cornerstone of Enterprise Integration Patterns, so are the Message and Exchange interfaces crucial to Apache Camel.

Message

Message in Apache Camel is an object type that implements the Message interface. Most developers deal with the implementation of the interface DefaultMessage. Everything is implemented in a good way and you ...

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