Running Examples

This section walks you through running the examples which are shipped with a binary distribution.

First you need to Download a binary distribution.

To test your Maven install you should be able to change directory into the examples directory and type

mvn -v

You should see something like

camel-rider:/tmp/camel/examples$ mvn -v 
Maven version: 2.0.5

Running an example

There are a few different ways you can run the examples depending on your preferences.

If you wish to use Maven to run the examples, change directory into the example you want to run then run the following command.

cd camel-example-jms-file
mvn exec:java

In each example you can run the main() from your IDE if you prefer. To get an IDE project you may wish to run

mvn idea:idea

If you are an IDEA user; or if you use eclipse user...

mvn idea:idea

You should now be able to open the project(s) in your IDE and run any main() method you wish