Mastering Apache Camel

Chapter 7. Error Handling

In any integrated system, there are numerous reasons for errors to happen. Many are unforeseen, not easy to predict, and not easy to simulate. As an integrated framework, Camel provides extensive support for error handling, which is very flexible and able to deal with very different kinds of errors.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• The kind of errors that we can deal with using Camel
• The different Camel error handlers available
• The configuration of the error handlers

Types of errors

We can distinguish two main types of errors—recoverable and irrecoverable. Let's have a look at these in detail.

Recoverable errors

A recoverable error is a temporary error. It means that this error might be recovered automatically ...