Articles

Articles on Apache Camel

• A bit more meat: Camel applied : JMS to File by Mike McLean
• Mathew Thomas posted his thoughts on Apache Camel including a sample project
• Matteo wrote a blog entry about using Camel with iBatis
• Knowledge Tree integration using Apache Camel
• Integrating Apache Camel with JBoss ESB by Edgar Ankiewsky
• Simple DSL OSGi bundle example by Andrej Koelewijn
• Realization of EAI Patterns with Apache Camel by Pascal Kolb at the Universität Stuttgart
• Spring Remoting with JMS Example on Amin Abbaspour's Weblog
• Implementing Fuji integration scenario using Camel SE by Louis Polycarpou on using Camel with Open ESB
• Using the Camel aggregator correctly by Torsten Mielke, a great blog entry how to use the Camel aggregator.
• Camel routes and HL7 by Roger Searjeant on using Camel and its HL7 support in the health care space.
• Combining ApacheCamel+BSF to make JBoss ESB polyglot by Edgard Ankiewsky Silva, a JBoss employeer.
• Groovy and Grape - easiest way to send gtalk message with Apache Camel by Andrej Koelewijn how easy it is to use Groovy and Grape to quickly try out new frameworks such as Apache Camel.
• Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) in Apache Camel (Spanish) by Gema Perdiguero, Tecsisa.
• Apache Camel integration in ServiceMix (Spanish) by Sebastián Gómez, Tecsisa.
• Apache Camel: Integration Nirvana by Jonathan Anstey Great for learning what Camel is and what it can do
• Leverage EIP with Apache Camel and Twitter by Bruno Borges
• Apache Camel Reference Card at DZone (the first card out of two) by Claus Ibsen
• Using RSS with Apache Camel by Jeroen Reijn
• Using Groovy and Camel to pool Google Analyst email reports by Mr. Haki
• Using grails-camel plugin to work with Camel in Grails land by Mr. Haki
• Send mail with Apache Camel from Gails by Mr. Haki
• Navigating the Integration Landscape - Claus Ibsen on Apache Camel Claus Ibsen was interviewed at DZone discussing the integration landscape
• Apache Camel: Enterprise Integration met scripttalen en DSLs (Dutch) by Peter Maas, Finalist IT Group.
• Axis 2 ride with Camel how to use Axis 2 with the Camel report incident tutorial by Sagara
• Introduction to the Open eHealth Integration Platform (based on top of Apache Camel) Excellent DZone article by Martin Krasser
• An IRC alerter written using Apache Camel and Java how to easily integrate IRC with Camel to monitor and do alerts.
• Entreprise Integration Pattern with Apache Camel 2.0 by Julien Dechmann, how to use Camel to split and transform CSV files to POJO and XML and sending to a JMS destination
• A Camel based XML payload HTTP polling provider by Christopher Hunt to use Camel with AJAX. Interesting read.
• Camel vs. JBI by Adrian Trenaman.
• Things to consider when selecting between Apache Camel and Apache Servicemix by Ashwin Karpe
• Groovy and Camel for monitoring ActiveMQ by Eric Hauser how to monitor AMQ Advisory queues from a single groovy file.
• Camellos - Discovering Apache Camel by Gunnar Hillert. A very nice and short blog series about Camel showing its powers in a simple and intuitive way. Highly recommended for new users
• Apache Camel alternatives by Gunnar Hillert. He presents a brief overview of other projects in the integration space.
• First steps with Apache Camel on Google App Engine by Martin Krasser posts his findings to get Camel running on the GAE.
• A jira notification system for irc using Camel by Guillaume Nodet - all code is in a single XML hot deployed in Apache Karaf.
• Camel, CXF and JMS by Example by Silvester van der Bijl. Good blog entry how to use CXF and Camel together.
• A simple file monitoring console with camel, cometd and jquery by Andrej Koelewijn. Shows how to use Camel to monitor log files and push lines changed using cometd to a webpage. All in a few files using Groovy.
• A Groovy ride on Camel by Jack Hung. Shows how to use Groovy with Camel to do a great content based route and transformation.
• First step with Apache Camel by Lukasz Budnik. Great first steps where Lukas does a fairly complex route as his first encounter with Camel.
• Advanced Event Notification Framework with Apache Camel by Hendy showing how to use Camel for a lightweight even notification system.
• Spring Integration and Apache Camel by Biju Kunjummen. An objective showcase, showing the same case how to do it with Spring Integration and Apache Camel.
• Camel IRC Message Route Example by James Carr. An IRC bot which can parse JavaScript and Ruby expressions.
• Camel + Smooks from the official Smooks blog about Smooks integration Camel out of the box.
• Hiding The Middleware from Your Domain Code With Camel by James Carr. Article which was Java Technical Insights of the Month.
• Using Apache Camel from Clojure by Jason Whitlark. A blog entry how to get Camel working with the Clojure programming language.
• A composite REST service using Apache Camel by Andrej Koelewijn. A blog entry how to expose a REST service and have Camel aggregate data from multiple sources to be returned.
• Getting Started with Apache Camel and prepare for Apache ServiceMix deployment by Magnus K Karlsson shows a test driven example how to start with Camel and the ServiceMix combo.
• A practical example of using Camel and Groovy to post russian currency rates on Twitter in russia by dulanov.
• EDA events over system boundaries with Camel by Sculptur team blog.
• Dynamic FTP Client using Apache Camel and Spring by Mattias Severson, showing how to develop an FTP client that could transmit files to various FTP servers as a part of a delivery system in a Java enterprise application.
• ServiceMix bridge to IBM WebSphereMQ how to bridge ActiveMQ and IBM WebSphereMQ with Camel running inside Apache ServiceMix 4.x (OSGi based).
• Using Apache Camel to route SOAP calls through message queues by Glen Mazza
• Virtual ESB - application integration made painless with Apache Camel by Piotr Jagielski shows how to use Camel as a lightweight integration using web service and XML.
• Java integration frameworks - Spring Integration vs. Apache Camel Article from April 2010 which compares the two frameworks (in french).
• Devoxx talk about Apache Camel - Impressions from the talk by Jos Nieuwenhuis
• Application-Monitoring & Statistics-Collection with Apache Camel by Martin Huber - Talks about how to gather Camel route statistics and persist those in a database using JPA.
• Camel exception handling overview by Ben O'Day giving a nice and short summary of some of the error handling capabilities in Camel.
• Remote Observer Pattern with Publish-Subscribe via XMPP by Hendy showing how easy it is to implement this pattern with Apache Camel using XMPP as transport.
• Implementing Asynchronous Observer Pattern with Bean Proxy by Hendy showing how easy it is to implement this pattern with Apache Camel using Camel's Bean proxy.
• Apache Camel Example Application - Earthquake Mashups showing how Camel using EIPs can gather online earthquake and weather data and expose REST service.
• RouteBuilding with inherited configurations by Martin Huber shows how to inherit configuration (such as error handling) when using Java DSL.

Presentations on Camel

• Implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns with Apache Camel presentation by Eduard Hildebrandt. Very nice power point presentation.
• Dead Simple Integration with Apache Camel presentation by Aaron Mulder from Chariot Solutions.
• Claus Ibsen's Apache Camel presentation at the FUSE community day in London 2010.
• FuseSource presentation on Camel and other related Apache projects
• Claus Ibsen presented Apache Camel at Devoxx 2010 - Slides from the presentation Claus did at the Devoxx conference.

Webinar or Video presentations on Camel

• James Strachan's Devoxx 2009 talk is mostly about Camel and ActiveMQ
• ScreenCast: an introduction to Apache Camel and the use of Enterprise Integration Patterns in Medium Resolution or High Resolution by James Strachan
• Taking Camel for a ride presentation by Bruce Snyder at ApacheCon US 2008 (Click on link to the presentation in his blog).
• JavaZone Conference - Taking Apache Camel for a Rider - Video presentation by Bruce Snyder at JavaZone September 2008 in Oslo, Norway (Click on link to the presentation to show the video).
• Introduction to messaging with ActiveMQ at Øredev 2008 conference presented by Bruce Snyder (with Camel in the end).
• Videos de las charlas de la 9a reunión de JavaMexico (Spanish) by Domingo Suarez who did a 1 hour presentation. This is a video recording of his presentation.
• FuseSource webinars - Upcoming and archived webinars on Apache Camel and other related Apache products.
• Screencast/Demo of Smooks and Apache Camel processing UN/EDIFACT - by Tom Fennelly showing how Smooks and Camel works together
• FuseSource YouTube - FuseSource You Tube Channel with webcasts about Camel and related Apache projects.
• Claus Ibsen's Devoxx 2010 talk is all about Apache Camel
• FuseSource Video Demos - Quick demos by James Strachan that can get you up and running quickly.

Podcasts where Camel is taking part

• James Strachan was interviewed by Dana Gardner on Apache Camel and its DSL and support for Enterprise Integration Patterns. Read the transcript or check out the podcast
• Episode 35 - A few beers with Chariot's Open Source Integration Experts - Chariot TechCast Episode 35 where they talk about: ServiceMix, Camel, FUSE, Mule, Spring Integration, EIP, ESB etc.
• The Basement Coders Episode 14 - Apache Camel - Basement Coders discusses Apache Camel. You may want to skip to the 25 minute where they start talking about Camel.

Books on Apache Camel

• Enterprise Integration Patterns - Known as the EIP book. This book distills the EIP pattern which Camel implements. This is a great book.
• Camel in Action - The Apache Camel bible.
• Open Source ESBs in Action - a practical book which investigates various OS ESB products. Among others Apache Camel is shown when investigating Apache ServiceMix.
• FuseSource Apache Books - FuseSource has exclusive excerpts from Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ books.

Additional Resources

FuseSource commercial documentation - FuseSource provides documentation for its distribution of Camel.

Camel bloggers

• FuseSource Blogs - a combined blog feed of many committers on Camel, ActiveMQ, ServiceMix and CXF
• Claus Ibsen's Blog - Claus is a Camel committer since March 2008, and writes a lot about Camel.
• Jon Anstey's Blog - Jon occasionally blogs about Camel
• James Strachan's Blog - James blogs about Camel sometimes too
• Willem Jiang's Blog - Willem also writes about Camel in English and Chinese.
• Charles Moulliard's Blog - Charles occasionally blogs about Camel and OSGi
• Ben O'Day's Blog - Ben works in the field and sometimes blogs about Camel
• OpenSourceKnowledge - Ashwin Karpe's Blog - Ashwin is a Camel committer and writes about Camel.