Apache Camel 1.4.0 Released!

New and Noteworthy

Welcome to the new Camel 1.4.0 release which includes 261 new features, improvements and bug fixes such as...

major improvements in JMS and Mail components
major improvements in Camel JMX management (enabled by default)
major improvements in Transactional Client. Bypassing Dead Letter Channel redelivery, letting the originator system handle this, resulting in the JMSMessage is rolled back to the JMS queue.
attachment support for Message
various improvements in CXF, File, FTP, Velocity, Stream, Atom and XMPP components
various improvements in the Java and Spring DSL
new transaction error handler, see Transactional Client
introduced ExceptionPolicyStrategy as strategy for exception clause selection during error handling (much improved default strategy in Camel)
intercept() default behavior changed (see section - important changes)
JMS headers now preserve packagename style headers so Bean and File headers is preserved, so you can safely send the filename or bean method to invoke over the JMS wire
introduced Debugger and Tracer interceptor to track how exchanges is routed
refinements to run in OSGi containers
some internal refactorings of package structure to avoid cycle dependencies
@deprecated some core classes, that will be removed in Camel 2.0
improved feedback for misconfiguration of camel routes such as mistypes of parameters
overall improved wiki documentation
improved javadoc for camel-core and camel-spring
dependencies is now on the finer grained jars if applicable (e.g. Spring)
WebSphere 6.1 support

Flatpack for processing fixed width or delimited files or messages using the FlatPack library (work in progress)
SpringIntegration for integration with Spring Integration

Please see Release Notes for more details. Download it now while is hot!
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