contents

foreword
foreword
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the cover illustration
about the authors

Part 1 First steps

1 Meeting Camel: 1.1 Introducing Camel; 1.2 Camel’s message model; 1.3 Camel’s architecture; 1.4 Your first Camel ride, revisited; 1.5 Summary
2 Routing with Camel: 2.1 Introducing Rider Auto Parts; 2.2 Understanding endpoints; 2.3 Creating routes in Java; 2.4 Creating routes with Spring; 2.5 Routing and EIPs; 2.6 Summary and best practices

Part 2 Core Camel

3 Transforming data with Camel: 3.1 Data transformation overview; 3.2 Transforming data using EIPs and Java; 3.3 Transforming XML; 3.4 Transforming with data formats; 3.5 Transforming with templates; 3.6 About Camel type converters; 3.7 Summary and best practices
4 Using beans with Camel: 4.1 Using beans the hard way and the easy way; 4.2 The Service Activator pattern; 4.3 Camel’s bean registries; 4.4 Selecting bean methods; 4.5 Bean parameter binding; 4.6 Summary and best practices
5 Error handling: 5.1 Understanding error handling; 5.2 Error handlers in Camel; 5.3 Using error handlers with redelivery; 5.4 Using exception policies; 5.5 Other error-handling features; 5.6 Summary and best practices
6 Testing with Camel: 6.1 Introducing the Camel Test Kit; 6.2 Using the Mock component; 6.3 Simulating errors; 6.4 Testing without mocks; 6.5 Summary and best practices
7 Understanding components: 7.1 Overview of Camel components; 7.2 Working with files (File and FTP components); 7.3 Asynchronous messaging (JMS component); 7.4 Web services (CXF component); 7.5 Networking (MINA component); 7.6 Working with databases (JDBC and JPA components); 7.7 In-memory messaging (Direct, SEDA, and VM components); 7.8 Automating tasks (Timer and Quartz components); 7.9 Summary and best practices
8 Enterprise integration patterns: 8.1 Introducing enterprise integration patterns; 8.2 The Aggregator EIP; 8.3 The Splitter EIP; 8.4 The Routing Slip EIP; 8.5 The Dynamic Router EIP; 8.6 The Load Balancer EIP; 8.7 Summary and best practices

Part 3 Out in the wild

9 Using transactions: 9.1 Why use transactions?; 9.2 Transaction basics; 9.3 The Transactional Client EIP; 9.4 Configuring and using transactions; 9.5 Compensating for unsupported transactions; 9.6 Summary and best practices
10 Concurrency and scalability: 10.1 Introducing concurrency; 10.2 Using thread pools; 10.3 Using concurrency with EIPs; 10.4 Synchronicity and threading; 10.5 The concurrency client API; 10.6 The asynchronous routing engine; 10.7 Summary and best practices
11 Developing Camel projects: 11.1 Managing projects with Maven; 11.2 Developing custom components; 11.3 Developing interceptors; 11.4 Using alternative languages; 11.5 Summary and best practices
12 Management and monitoring: 12.1 Monitoring Camel; 12.2 Using JMX with Camel; 12.3 Tracking application activity; 12.4 Managing Camel applications; 12.5 Summary and best practices
13 Running and deploying Camel: 13.1 Starting Camel; 13.2 Starting and stopping routes at runtime; 13.3 Shutting down Camel; 13.4 Deploying Camel; 13.5 Camel and OSGi; 13.6 Summary and best practices
14 Bean routing and remoting: 14.1 Using beans for routing; 14.3 Hiding middleware; 14.4 Summary and best practices