Starting and stopping Camel Contexts in Karaf

Starting and stopping the bundle that contains a Camel Context can be very clumsy; you can use the camel:context-start and camel:context-stop commands to manage specific contexts.

Getting ready

Follow the instructions under the Listing Camel Contexts in Karaf recipe's Getting ready section for this recipe.

How to do it…

Managing Camel Contexts in Karaf is easy, but requires you to become familiar with two commands, which are as follows:

• camel:context-start contextName: This command is used to start a context
• camel:context-stop contextName: This command is used to stop a context

The following Camel command invocations demonstrate the result of stopping a context:

karaf@root()> camel:context-list
 Context Status Uptime 
 ------- ------ ------ 
 CamelCommandContext Started 3.139 seconds 
karaf@root()> camel:context-stop CamelCommandContext 
karaf@root()> camel:context-list
karaf@root()>

How it works…

The context commands operate on the Camel framework and do not represent the OSGi life cycle. Depending upon your application, a stopped context may result in the need to restart its host bundle.

See also

• The Listing routes in Karaf recipe