Camel Maven Plugin
The Camel Maven Plugin is used to run Camel Spring configurations inside Maven for easy testing. A good example application to get you started is the Spring Example.
cd examples/camel-example-spring mvn camel:run
How this works is that the plugin will compile the source code in the maven project, then boot up a Spring ApplicationContext using the XMl confiuration files on the classpath at
META-INF/spring/*.xml
This allows you to boot up any Spring services you wish; whether they are Camel related or any other Spring POJOs.