appendix B The Camel community

 

As with any open source project, the community behind Camel is extremely important. We think of community as an all-encompassing term for the official website, mailing lists, the issue tracker, Camel users, projects based on or extending Camel, and much more. Measuring the vibrancy of a community when it has this many moving parts can be hard, but it’s important. Having a stagnant or small community will make your (the user’s) experience more difficult when things go wrong and during development in general. Camel’s community is highly active and expanding, so you’re in luck!

This appendix covers main aspects of the Camel community.

Apache Camel website

The Apache Camel website, http://camel.apache.org, will be your main resource when using Camel. You may have already noticed that we reference pages from the Camel website throughout the book. It’s a good resource for us too. On the Camel website, you’ll find links for downloads, documentation, support, and many other topics.

JIRA, mailing lists, Gitter, and IRC

Camel at GitHub

Camel at Stack Overflow

Commercial Camel offerings

Camel tooling

Camel-extra project

Becoming a Camel committer

Videos

Other resources