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You might first want to read Writing Components for a background in how to implement a new component.
Typically it means you write an implementation of the Component interface, usually deriving from DefaultComponent.
You can then register your component explicitly via
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However you can use the auto-discovery feature of Camel where by Camel will automatically add a Component when an endpoint URI is used. To do this you would create a file called
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with contents
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(you can add other property configurations in there too if you like)
Then if you refer to an endpoint as foo://somethingOrOther
Camel will auto-discover your component and register it.
The The FooComponent
can then be auto-injected with resources using the Injector, such as to support Spring based auto-wiring, or to support support @Resource
(EJB3 style) injection or Guice style style @Inject
injection.
Working with Spring XML
You can configure a component via Spring using the following mechanism...
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Which allows you to configure a component using some name (activemq in the above example), then you can refer to the component using activemq:[queue:|topic:]destinationName
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If you want to add explicit Spring 2.x XML objects to your XML then you could use the the xbean-spring
which tries to automate most of the XML binding work for you; or you could look in camel-spring at at CamelNamespaceHandler
you'll see how we handle the Spring XML stuff (warning its kinda hairy code to look at . If you wanted wanted <fooComponent>
to be a standard part of the core Camel schema then you'd hack that file to add your component & conftribute a patch to the camel XSD. Otherwise you could write your own namespace & schema if you prefer.
See Also
- Writing Components
- How do I configure endpointsDo I Configure Endpoints?