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I highly recommend this book to anyone with even a passing interest in Apache Camel. Do take Camel for a ride...and don't get the hump!
Camel in Action, Second Edition is the most complete Camel book on the market. Written by core developers of Camel and the authors of the highly acclaimed first edition, this book distills their experience and practical insights so that you can tackle integration tasks like a pro.
About the Technology
Apache Camel is a Java framework that implements enterprise integration patterns (EIPs) and comes with over 200 adapters to third-party systems. A concise DSL lets you build integration logic into your app with just a few lines of Java or XML. By using Camel, you benefit from the testing and experience of a large and vibrant open source community.
About the book
Camel in Action, Second Edition is the definitive guide to the Camel framework. It starts with core concepts like sending, receiving, routing, and transforming data. It then goes in depth on many topics such as how to develop, debug, test, deal with errors, secure, scale, cluster, deploy, and monitor your Camel applications. The book also discusses how to run Camel with microservices, reactive systems, containers, and in the cloud.
Table of Contents takes you straight to the bookdetailed table of contents
Part 1: First Steps
1. Meeting Camel
1.1. Introducing Camel
1.1.1. What is Camel?
1.1.2. Why use Camel?
1.2. Getting started
1.2.1. Getting Camel
1.2.2. Your first Camel ride
1.3. Camel's message model
1.3.1. Message
1.3.2. Exchange
1.4. Camel's architecture
1.4.1. Architecture from 10,000 feet
1.4.2. Camel concepts
1.5. Your first Camel ride, revisited
1.6. Summary
2. Routing with Camel
2.1. Introducing Rider Auto Parts
2.2. Understanding endpoints
2.2.1. Consuming from an FTP endpoint
2.2.2. Sending to a JMS endpoint
2.3. Creating routes in Java
2.3.1. Using the RouteBuilder
2.3.2. The Java DSL
2.4. Defining routes in XML
2.4.1. Bean injection and Spring
2.4.2. The XML DSL
2.4.3. Using Camel and Spring
2.5. Endpoints revisited
2.5.1. Sending to dynamic endpoints
2.5.2. Using property placeholders in endpoint URIs
2.5.3. Using raw values in endpoint URIs
2.5.4. Referencing registry beans in endpoint URIs
2.6. Routing and EIPs
2.6.1. Using a content-based router
2.6.2. Using message filters
2.6.3. Using multicasting
2.6.4. Using recipient lists
2.6.5. Using the wireTap method
2.7. Summary and best practices
Part 2: Core Camel
3. Transforming
3.1. Data transformation overview
3.1.1. Data transformation with Camel
3.2. Transforming data using EIPs and Java
3.2.1. Using the Message Translator EIP
3.2.2. Using the Content Enricher EIP
3.3. Transforming XML
3.3.1. Transforming XML with XSLT
3.3.2. Transforming XML with object marshaling
3.4. Transforming with data formats
3.4.1. Data formats provided with Camel
3.4.2. Using Camel's CSV data format
3.4.3. Using Camel's Bindy data format
3.4.4. Using Camel's JSON data format
3.4.5. Configuring Camel data formats
3.4.6. Writing your own data format
3.5. Transforming with templates
3.5.1. Using Apache Velocity
3.6. About Camel type converters
3.6.1. How the Camel type—converter mechanism works
3.6.2. Using Camel type converters
3.6.3. Writing your own type converter
3.7. Summary and best practices
4. Using beans with Camel
4.1. Using beans the hard way and the easy way
4.1.1. Invoking a bean from pure Java
4.1.2. Invoking a bean defined in XML DSL
4.1.3. Using beans the easy way
4.2. The Service Activator pattern
4.3. Camel's bean registries
4.3.1. JndiRegistry
4.3.2. SimpleRegistry
4.3.3. ApplicationContextRegistry
4.3.4. OsgiServiceRegistry and BlueprintContainerRegistry
4.3.5. CdiBeanRegistry
4.4. Selecting bean methods
4.4.1. How Camel selects bean methods
4.4.2. Camel's method-selection algorithm
4.4.3. Some method-selection examples
4.4.4. Potential method-selection problems
4.4.5. Method selection using type matching
4.5. Bean parameter binding
4.5.1. Binding with multiple parameters
4.5.2. Binding using built-in types
4.5.3. Binding using Camel annotations
4.5.4. Binding using Camel language annotations
4.5.5. Parameter binding using method name with signature
4.6. Using beans as predicates and expressions
4.6.1. Using beans as predicates in routes
4.6.2. Using beans as expressions in routes
4.7. Summary and best practices
5. Enterprise integration patterns
5.1. Introducing enterprise integration patterns
5.1.1. The Aggregator and Splitter EIPs
5.1.2. The Routing Slip and Dynamic Router EIPs
5.1.3. The Load Balancer EIP
5.2. The Aggregator EIP
5.2.1. Introducing the Aggregator EIP
5.2.2. Completion conditions for the Aggregator
5.2.3. Using persistence with the Aggregator
5.2.4. Using recovery with the Aggregator
5.3. The Splitter EIP
5.3.1. Using the Splitter
5.3.2. Using beans for splitting
5.3.3. Splitting big messages
5.3.4. Aggregating split messages
5.3.5. When errors occur during splitting
5.4. The Routing Slip EIP
5.4.1. Using the Routing Slip EIP
5.4.2. Using a bean to compute the routing slip header
5.4.3. Using an Expression as the routing slip
5.4.4. Using @RoutingSlip annotation
5.5. The Dynamic Router EIP
5.5.1. Using the Dynamic Router
5.5.2. Using the @DynamicRouter annotation
5.6. The Load Balancer EIP
5.6.1. Introducing the Load Balancer EIP
5.6.2. Load-balancing strategies
5.6.3. Using the failover load balancer
5.6.4. Using a custom load balancer
5.7. Summary and best practices
6. Using components
6.1. Overview of Camel components
6.1.1. Manually adding components
6.1.2. Autodiscovering components
6.2. Working with files (File and FTP components)
6.2.1. Reading and writing files with the File component
6.2.2. Accessing remote files with the FTP component
6.3. Asynchronous messaging (JMS component)
6.3.1. Sending and receiving messages
6.3.2. Request-reply messaging
6.3.3. Message mappings
6.4. Networking (Netty4 component)
6.4.1. Using Netty for network programming
6.4.2. Using custom codecs
6.5. Working with databases (JDBC and JPA components)
6.5.1. Accessing data with the JDBC component
6.5.2. Persisting objects with the JPA component
6.6. In-memory messaging (Direct, Direct-VM, SEDA, and VM components)
6.6.1. Synchronous messaging with the Direct and Direct-VM components
6.6.2. Asynchronous messaging with SEDA and VM
6.7. Automating tasks (Scheduler and Quartz2 components)
6.7.1. Using the Scheduler component
Part 3: Developing and testing
7. Microservices
7.1. Microservices Overview
7.1.1. Microservices Characteristics
7.2. Running Camel microservices
7.2.1. Standalone Camel as microservice
7.2.2. CDI Camel as microservice
7.2.3. WildFly Swarm with Camel as microservice
7.2.4. Spring Boot with Camel as microservice
7.2.5. Using Vert.x to build microservices
7.2.6. Using Camel together with Vert.X
7.3. Calling other microservices
7.3.1. Recommendation prototype
7.3.2. Shopping cart prototype
7.3.3. Rules and Inventory prototypes
7.3.4. Rating prototype
7.3.5. Putting all the microservices together
7.4. Designing for failures
7.4.1. Using Retry Pattern to handle failures
7.4.2. Using Retry Pattern without Camel
7.4.3. Using Circuit Breaker to handle failures
7.4.4. Netflix Hystrix
7.4.5. Using Hystrix with Camel
7.4.6. Configuring Hystrix
7.4.7. Bulkhead pattern
7.4.8. Calling other microservice with fault tolerance
7.4.9. Using Camel Hystrix with Spring Boot
7.4.10. The Hystrix Dashboard
7.5. Summary and best practices
8. Developing Camel projects
8.1. Managing projects with Maven
8.1.1. Using Camel Maven archetypes
8.1.2. Camel Maven dependencies
8.2. Using Camel in Eclipse
8.2.1. Starting a new Camel project
8.2.2. Debugging an issue with your new Camel project
8.3. Developing custom components
8.3.1. Setting up a new Camel component
8.3.2. Diving into the implementation
8.4. Generating components with the API component framework
8.4.1. Generating the skeleton API project
8.4.2. Configuring the camel-api-component-maven-plugin
8.4.3. Advanced configuration options
8.4.4. Implementing remaining functionality
8.5. Developing data formats
8.5.1. Generating the skeleton data format project
8.5.2. Writing the custom data format
8.6. Developing interceptors
8.6.1. Creating an InterceptStrategy
8.7. Summary and best practices
9. Testing
9.1. Introducing the Camel Test Kit
9.1.1. The Camel JUnit extensions
9.1.2. Using camel-test to test Java Camel routes
9.1.3. Unit testing an existing RouteBuilder class
9.2. Testing Camel with Spring, Blueprint, and CDI
9.2.1. Camel testing with Spring XML
9.2.2. Camel testing with Spring Java Config
9.2.3. Camel testing with Spring Boot
9.2.4. Camel testing with OSGi Blueprint XML
9.2.5. Camel testing with CDI
9.2.6. Camel testing with WildFly
9.3. Using the Mock component
9.3.1. Introducing the Mock component
9.3.2. Unit testing with the Mock component
9.3.3. Verifying that the correct message arrived
9.3.4. Using expressions with mocks
9.3.5. Testing the ordering of messages
9.3.6. Using mocks to simulate real components
9.4. Simulating errors
9.4.1. Simulating errors using a processor
9.4.2. Simulating errors using mocks
9.4.3. Simulating errors using interceptors
9.4.4. Using adviceWith to add interceptors to an existing route
9.4.5. Using adviceWith to manipulate routes for testing
9.4.6. Using weave with advice with to amend routes
9.5. Camel integration testing
9.5.1. Integration testing
9.5.2. Using NotifyBuilder
9.6. Using third party testing libraries
9.6.1. Using Arquillian to test Camel applications
9.6.2. Using Pax-Exam to test Camel applications
9.6.3. Using Citrus Framework to test Camel applications
9.6.4. Other Testing Libraries
9.7. Summary and best practices
10. RESTful and SOAP web services
10.1. Restful services
10.1.1. The principle of an RESTful API
10.1.2. Using JAX-RS with REST services
10.1.3. Using Camel in an existing JAX-RS application
10.1.4. Using camel-reslet with REST services
10.1.5. Using camel-cxfrs with REST services
10.2. The Camel Rest DSL
10.2.1. A quick example of the Rest DSL
10.2.2. How the Rest DSL works
10.2.3. Supported components for the Rest DSL
10.2.4. Configuring Rest DSL
10.2.5. Using XML and JSon data formats with Rest DSL
10.3. API Documentation using Swagger
10.3.1. Using Swagger with JAX-RS Rest services
10.3.2. Using Swagger with Rest DSL
10.3.3. Documenting Rest DSL services
10.3.4. Documenting input, output and error codes
10.3.5. Configuring API documentation
10.3.6. Using CORS and Swagger web console
10.4. Web services
10.4.1. Configuring CXF
10.4.2. Using a contract-first approach
10.4.3. Using a code-first approach
10.5. Summary and best practices
Part 4: Going further with Camel
11. Error Handling
11.1. Understanding error handling
11.1.1. Where Camel’s error handling applies
11.2. Error handlers in Camel
11.2.1. The default error handler
11.2.2. The dead letter channel error handler
11.2.3. The transaction error handler
11.2.4. The no error handler
11.2.5. The logging error handler
11.2.6. Features of the error handlers
11.3. Using error handlers with redelivery
11.3.1. An error-handling use case
11.3.2. Using redelivery
11.3.3. Using the DefaultErrorHandler with redelivery
11.3.4. Error handlers and scopes
11.3.5. Reusing context scoped error handlers
11.3.6. Handling faults
11.4. Using exception policies
11.4.1. Understanding how onException catches exceptions
11.4.2. Understanding how onException works with redelivery
11.4.3. Understanding how onException can handle exceptions
11.4.4. Custom exception handling
11.4.5. New exception while handling exception
11.4.6. Ignoring exceptions
11.4.7. Implementing an error handler solution
11.4.8. Bridging the consumer with Camel’s error handler
11.5. Other error-handling features
11.5.1. Using onWhen
11.5.2. Using onRedeliver
11.5.3. Using retryWhile
11.6. Summary and best practices
12. Transactions and Idempotency
12.1. Why use transactions?
12.1.1. The Rider Auto Parts partner integration application
12.1.2. Setting up the JMS broker and the database
12.1.3. The story of the lost message
12.2. Transaction basics
12.2.1. About Spring’s transaction support
12.2.2. Adding transactions
12.2.3. Testing transactions
12.3. The Transactional Client EIP
12.3.1. Using local transactions
12.3.2. Using global transactions
12.3.3. Transaction starting from a database resource
12.3.4. Transaction redeliveries
12.3.5. Transaction propagations
12.3.6. Using transactions with multiple routes
12.3.7. Using different transaction propagations
12.3.8. Returning a custom response when a transaction fails
12.4. Compensating for unsupported transactions
12.4.1. Introducing UnitOfWork
12.4.2. Using Synchronization callbacks
12.4.3. Using onCompletion
12.5. Idempotency
12.5.1. Idempotent Consumer EIP
12.5.2. Idempotent Repositories
12.5.3. Clustered idempotent repository
12.6. Summary and best practices
13. Parallel processing
13.1. Introducing concurrency
13.1.1. Running the example without concurrency
13.1.2. Using concurrency
13.2. Using thread pools
13.2.1. Understanding thread pools in Java
13.2.2. Camel thread pool profiles
13.2.3. Creating custom thread pools
13.2.4. Using ExecutorServiceStrategy
13.3. Parallel processing with EIPs
13.3.1. Using concurrency with the Threads EIP
13.3.2. Using concurrency with the Multicast EIP
13.3.3. Using concurrency with the Wire Tap EIP
13.4. The asynchronous routing engine
13.4.1. Hitting the scalability limit
13.4.2. Scalability in Camel
13.4.3. Components supporting asynchronous processing
13.4.4. Asynchronous API
13.4.5. Writing a custom asynchronous component
13.4.6. Potential issues when using an asynchronous component
13.4.7. Dangers with blocked threads
13.5. Summary and best practices
14. Securing Camel
14.1. Securing your configuration
14.1.1. Encrypting configuration
14.1.2. Decrypting configuration
14.2. Web service security
14.2.1. Authentication in web services
14.2.2. Authenticating web services using JAAS
14.3. Payload security
14.3.1. Digital signatures
14.3.2. Payload encryption
14.4. Transport security
14.5. Route authentication and authorization
14.6. Summary and best practices
Part 5: Running and managing Camel
15. Running and deploying Camel
15.1. Starting Camel
15.1.1. How Camel starts
15.1.2. Camel startup options
15.1.3. Ordering routes
15.1.4. Disabling autostartup
15.2. Starting and stopping routes at runtime
15.2.1. Using CamelContext to start and stop routes at runtime
15.2.2. Using RoutePolicy to start and stop routes at runtime
15.3. Shutting down Camel
15.3.1. Graceful shutdown
15.4. Deploying Camel
15.4.1. Embedded in a Java application
15.4.2. Embedded in a web application
15.4.3. Embedded in WildFly
15.5. Camel and OSGi
15.5.1. Setting up Maven to generate an OSGi bundle
15.5.2. Installing and running Apache Karaf
15.5.3. Using a Blueprint-based Camel route
15.5.4. Deploying the example
15.5.5. Using a managed service factory to spin up route instances
15.6. Camel and CDI
15.6.1. WildFly deployment
15.6.2. Karaf deployment
15.7. Summary and best practices
16. Management and Monitoring
16.1. Monitoring Camel
16.1.1. Checking health at the network level
16.1.2. Checking health level at the JVM level
16.1.3. Checking health at the application level
16.2. Using JMX with Camel
16.2.1. Using JConsole to manage Camel
16.2.2. Using JConsole to remotely manage Camel
16.2.3. Using Jolokia to manage Camel
16.3. Tracking application activity
16.3.1. Using log files
16.3.2. Using core logs
16.3.3. Using custom logging
16.3.4. Using Tracer
16.3.5. Using notifications
16.4. Managing Camel applications
16.4.1. Managing Camel application lifecycles
16.4.2. Using Jolokia and hawtio to manage Camel lifecycles
16.4.3. Using Camel commands to manage Camel
16.4.4. Using controlbus to manage Camel
16.5. The Camel management API
16.5.1. Accessing the Camel management API using Java
16.5.2. Using Camel management API from within Camel
16.5.3. Performance Statistics
16.5.4. Management enable custom Camel components
16.5.5. Management enable custom Java beans
16.6. Summary and best practices
Part 6: Out in the wild
17. Clustering
17.1. Clustered HTTP
17.2. Clustered Camel routes
17.2.1. Clustered active/passive mode using Hazelcast
17.2.2. Clustered active/passive mode using Consul
17.2.3. Clustered active/passive mode using ZooKeeper
17.3. Clustered JMS
17.3.1. Client side clustering with JMS and ActiveMQ
17.4. Clustered Kafka
17.4.1. Kafka consumer offset
17.4.2. Crashing a JVM with a running Kafka consumer
17.5. Clustering caches
17.5.1. Clustered cache using Hazelcast
17.5.2. Clustering cache using JCache and Infinispan
17.6. Using clustered scheduling
17.6.1. Clustered scheduling using Quartz
17.7. Summary and best practices
18. Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes
18.1. Getting started with Camel on Docker
18.1.1. Building and running Camel microservices locally
18.1.2. Building and running Camel microservices using Docker
18.1.3. Building Docker Image using Docker Maven Plugin
18.1.4. Run Java Microservices on Docker
18.2. Getting Started with Kubernetes
18.2.1. Installing Minikube
18.2.2. Starting Minikube
18.3. Running Camel and other applications in Kubernetes
18.3.1. Run applications using kubctl
18.3.2. Calling a service running inside Kubernetes cluster
18.3.3. Run Java applications in Kubernetes using Maven tooling
18.3.4. Java microservices calling each other in the cluster
18.3.5. Debugging Java applications in Kubernetes
18.4. Understanding Kubernetes
18.4.1. Introducing Kubernetes
18.4.2. Kubernetes Architecture
18.4.3. Essential Kubernetes Concepts
18.5. Building resilient Camel microservices on Kubernetes
18.5.1. Scaling up microservices
18.5.2. Using readiness and liveness probes
18.5.3. Dealing with failures calling services in Kubernetes
18.6. fabric8, helm and OpenShift
18.6.1. About fabric8
18.6.2. Installing fabric8 console
18.6.3. Kubernetes Helm
18.6.4. OpenShift
18.7. Summary and best practices
19. Camel tooling
19.1. Camel Editors
19.1.1. JBoss Tools for Apache Camel
19.1.2. fabric8 Camel editor
19.1.3. Camel Validation using Maven
19.2. Camel Catalog - The information goldmine
19.2.1. Developing custom tooling using the camel-catalog
19.2.2. Camel tooling with Karaf
19.3. hawtio - A web console for Camel and Java applications
19.3.1. Overview of hawtio functionality
19.3.2. Debugging Camel routes using hawtio
19.3.3. Building hawtio plugins
19.4. Summary and best practices
20. Reactive Camel
20.1. Using Reactive Streams with Camel
20.1.1. Reactive flow control with back pressure
20.1.2. First steps with Reactive Streams
20.1.3. Using Camel with Reactive Streams
20.1.4. Controlling back pressure from producer side
20.1.5. Controlling back pressure from consumer side
20.2. Using Vert.x with Camel
20.2.1. Building a dong simulator using Vert.x
20.2.2. Using Camel together with Vert.x
20.2.3. Summary of using Camel with Vert.x for microservices
20.3. Summary and best practices
21. Camel and IoT
21.1. The Internet Of Things shopping list
21.1.1. Raspberry Pi
21.1.2. SD Card for Raspberry Pi
21.1.3. Power bank for Raspberry Pi
21.1.4. Camera for Raspberry Pi
21.1.5. TI SensorTag
21.2. The Internet Of Things architecture
21.3. Why Camel is a right choice for The Internet Of Things?
21.3.1. Components
21.3.2. Data formats
21.3.3. Redelivery
21.3.4. Throttling
21.3.5. Content based routing
21.3.6. Client side load balancing
21.3.7. Control bus
21.4. Gateway to a data center connectivity
21.4.1. AMQP
21.4.2. MQTT
21.4.3. REST/HTTP
21.5. Camel and Eclipse Kura
21.5.1. Starting Kura in emulator mode
21.5.2. Defining Camel routes using Kura web UI
21.5.3. Next steps with Camel and Kura
21.6. Next steps with Camel and Internet Of Things
21.6.1. Eclipse Kapua
21.6.2. LWM2M and Eclipse Leshan project
21.6.3. Eclipse Hono
Appendixes
Appendix A: Simple, the expression language
A.1. Introducing Simple
A.2. Syntax
A.3. Built-in variables
A.4. Built-in functions
A.5. Built-in file variables
A.6. Built-in operators
A.6.1. Combining expressions
A.7. The OGNL feature
A.8. Using Simple from custom Java code
A.9. Summary
Appendix B: The Camel community
B.1. Apache Camel website
B.2. JIRA, mailing lists, and IRC
B.3. Camel at GitHub
B.4. Camel at Stack Overflow
B.5. Commercial Camel Offerings
B.6. Camel Tooling
B.7. Camel-extra project
B.8. Camel quick reference card
B.9. Becoming a Camel committer
B.10. Other resources
What's inside
- Coverage of all relevant EIPs
- Camel microservices with Spring Boot
- Camel on Docker and Kubernetes
- Error handling, testing, security, clustering, monitoring, and deployment
- Hundreds of examples in Java and XML
About the reader
Readers should be familiar with Java. This book is accessible to beginners and invaluable to experts.
About the authors
Claus Ibsen is a senior principal engineer working for Red Hat specializing in cloud and integration. He has worked on Apache Camel for the last nine years where he heads the project. Claus lives in Denmark.
Jonathan Anstey is an engineering manager at Red Hat and a core Camel contributor. He lives in Newfoundland, Canada.
