Camel 2.12.0 release (currently in progress)

New and Noteworthy

Welcome to the 2.12.0 release which approx XXX issues resolved (new features, improvements and bug fixes such as...)

• Endpoint Annotations along with automatically created HTML documentation for the endpoint parameters; this makes it easier for component developers to add a few refactoring-safe annotations to their Endpoint or Consumer implementations and, (along with javadoc comments on the field or setter method), get nice user documentation on how to use the endpoint for free.
• ComponentConfiguration API provides a handy API for tools developers to introspect on a Component to find all the possible parameters, their types and any extra annotations (like Bean Validation Annotations) to be able to create/edit endpoints or URI strings so that tools can generate nicer UIs for configuring endpoints than just letting folks edit Strings.
• EndpointCompleter API provides a hook so that command line tools (like Karaf's shell), IDEs and web tools can get (bash tab like) auto-completion on endpoint paths (such as file or directory names, message queue names, database table names) when creating or using new endpoints
• Reduced stack-frames in use during routing, that also makes Camel's stack traces being logged much less verbose. This also allows people to easier debug the internals of Camel as less AsyncCallback callbacks are in use during routing.
• Easy to use Message History out of the box. And included message history as "route stack-trace" when exceptions logged by Error Handler to make it easier for end users to spot where the exception occurred.
• Spring Web Services now supports setting/receiving SOAP headers more easily using a header on the Camel Message.
• Evaluating Groovy expressions is faster as we cache the compiled scripts.
• Added base64 option to Shiro Security to allow transferring security token over JMS and other transports as base64 encoded representation.
• Made it easier to use Shiro Security as the credentials can be provided in headers, when sending a message to a secured route.
• Bindy now supports enums.
• Added new BacklogDebugger to perform live debugging of messages during routing. The BacklogDebugger has JMX API allows tooling to control the debugger.
• While using the Jackson library through the JSON Dataformat there's now a jsonView attribute you could make use of directly inside the DSL itself.
• SMPP now supports optional parameters in all commands where they are possible.

Fixed Issues

• Fixed setting .id in Java DSL on some EIPs such as the Validate
• Fixed Dead Letter Channel always handled exception, which wasn't the case if an Exception Clause was in use, which didn't had handled=true.
• Fixed Using PropertyPlaceholder in attributes defined on <camelContext>.
• All Camel Components will configure their consumers when being created to ensure you can configure from URIs with consumer. as prefix.
• Fixed QuickfixJEndpoint to adhere a given InOut MEP correctly.
• Fixed using property placeholders in a Simple predicate used inside a when in a Content Based Router when using Java DSL

New Enterprise Integration Patterns

New Components

• camel-mvel - For templating using MVEL
• camel-netty-http - HTTP component using Netty as transport
• camel-sap-netwever - For integration with SAP NetWeaver Gateway
• camel-weather - For polling weather information from Open Weather Map

New DSL

New Annotations

New Data Formats

New Languages

New Examples

New Tutorials

API breaking

Known Issues

Dependency Upgrades

• Commons Httpclient 4.2.3 to 4.2.5
• Commons Httpcore 4.2.3 to 4.2.4
• CXF 2.7.4 to 2.7.5
• EHCache 2.5.2 to 2.7.0
• HAPI 2.0 to 2.1
• Hawtdispatch 1.13 to 1.17
• Hibernate Validator 4.1.0 to 4.3.1
• Jackson 2.1.4 to 2.2.2
• JRuby 1.7.2 to 1.7.3
• Krati 0.4.8 to 0.4.9
• Leveldbjni 1.6 to 1.7
• MQTT Client 1.4 to 1.5
• Netty 3.6.5 to 3.6.6
• OpenJPA 2.2.1 to 2.2.2
• Shiro 1.2.1 to 1.2.2
• Spring 3.1.4.RELEASE to 3.2.3.RELEASE
• Spring Data Redis 1.0.3.RELEASE to 1.0.4.RELEASE
• Spring Security 3.1.3.RELEASE to 3.1.4.RELEASE
• Spring Web Services 2.1.2 to 2.1.3
• TestNG 6.8 to 6.8.5
• XStream 1.4.3 to 1.4.4

Internal changes

• The following classes in org.apache.camel.processor has been removed as they are no longer needed due internal optimization: UnitOfWorkProcessor, ChildUnitOfWorkProcessor, RouteContextProcessor, RouteInflightRepositoryProcessor, and RoutePolicyProcessor

Changes that may affect end users

• The File and FTP consumers when using idempotent repository will no longer invoke contains with a directory name; this has been changed to only be checked for files.
• Shutting down using Graceful Shutdown now requires the timeout value to be positive. And improved logic to avoid getting stuck in waiting for inflight messages, and having counter go negative.
• Tracer now requires explicitly to be enabled on CamelContext to be available and in use.
• The class org.apache.camel.processor.interceptor.BacklogTracerInterceptor has been removed as it was no longer needed due internal optimizations.

Important changes to consider when upgrading

• Spring 3.0.x is no longer supported.
• The usage of the deprecated built-in CommonsHttpMessageSender has been replaced with HttpUrlConnectionMessageSender by Spring Web Services. Consider this in case either the timeout or sslContextParameters option is used through the Producer of this component.
• camel-scala-29 module has been removed.

Getting the Distributions

Binary Distributions

Source Distributions

Getting the Binaries using Maven 2

To use this release in your maven project, the proper dependency configuration that you should use in your Maven POM is:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-core</artifactId>
  <version>2.12.0</version>
</dependency>

SVN Tag Checkout

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/tags/camel-2.12.0

Changelog

For a more detailed view of new features and bug fixes, see the:

• release notes for 2.12.0