Introduction

This chapter will introduce you to the fundamentals of running Apache Camel inside your applications. You will learn how to make use of Camel's rich set of components, and how to structure routes in such a way that common integration logic is able to be reused without duplication. These topics will provide you with the foundation for developing integrations using the framework.

To try these examples for yourself, obtain the example code, and build it using Apache Maven 3.0 or newer (http://maven.apache.org). Use the following command from the top-level directory of the project. Complete instructions are also provided in the included README file.

# mvn clean install

The code for this chapter is contained within the camel-cookbook-structuring-routes module of the examples.