With the release of Camel 2.0, a new set of annotations were introduced to make Camel easier to use with the Spring Framework. In this post, we'll take a look at how to use Spring Boot with Camel.
We'll start with a simple example that routes an HTTP request to a log. First, we'll need to add the following dependencies to our pom.xml
:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
<version>2.22.0</version>
</dependency>
Now we can create a @Configuration
class that sets up Camel:
@Configuration
public class MyRouteBuilder extends RouteBuilder {
@Override
public void configure() {
from("jetty:http://0.0.0.0:8080/myapp")
.to("log:requests");
}
}
Finally, we'll need a application.properties
file to configure the Jetty server:
server.port=8080
That's it! We can now run our application and hit http://localhost:8080/myapp
with a browser or curl
. We should see the request logged in the console.
Of course, this example is very simple. Camel provides a huge number of components that can be used to build more complex applications. For more information on using Camel with Spring Boot, check out the documentation.