Mastering Apache Camel

Summary

Generally speaking, error handling is hard. That's why Camel provides a large panel of features around error handling. Even if you can use the doTry/doCatch/doFinally syntax, most of the time it's better to separate the routing logic from the error handling itself.

When possible, good practice is to try to recover. It's always a good idea to use strategies for recovery. It's strongly recommended to build unit tests to simulate errors. It's what we will see in the next chapter—testing with Camel.