Part 2 Core Camel

In part 1, we guided you through what we consider introductory topics in Camel—topics you absolutely need to know to use Camel. In this part, we’ll cover the core features of Camel in depth. You’ll need many of these features when using Camel in real-world applications.

In chapter 3, we’ll take a look at the data in the messages being routed by Camel. In particular, you’ll see how to transform this data to other formats by using Camel.

Camel has great support for integrating beans into your routing applications. In chapter 4, we’ll look at the many ways of using beans in Camel applications. Chapter 5 of this part revisits the important topic of enterprise integration patterns (EIPs) in Camel. Back in chapter 2, we covered some of the simpler EIPs; in chapter 5, we’ll look at several of the more complex EIPs.

Components are the main extension mechanism in Camel. As such, they include functionality to connect to many different transports, APIs, and other extensions to Camel’s core. Chapter 6 covers the most heavily used components that ship with Camel