Blog from July, 2011

The Apache Camel 2.8.0 release is finally out. This release comes with a record 422 issues resolved, many of them coming as contributions from our community. Thank you for your contributions and continued support.

This release features a few new components, most notably AWS-S3 and AWS-SNS supporting Amazon cloud services, HDFS for the Hadoop Distributed File System and a new AHC providing an asynchronous HTTP client. There are also many new features and improvements, too many to list, so I recommend taking a look at the release notes for a more complete overview.

Download Camel now and enjoy the ride!
Hadrian

Apache Camel 2.7.3 Released

The Camel PMC is glad to announce the availability of apache-camel version 2.7.3. This release resolved over 70 JIRA issues (mostly bugs) reported by users.

Download Camel now, check out the release notes and enjoy the ride!

This month we celebrate the 4 year birthday of the Apache Camel project. Camel was conceived as a sub project from Apache ActiveMQ project.

In fact the first commit of the project to Apache was done by one of its founders, James Strachan, on March 19th 2007.

The first public announcement of the project as posted on a blog by James on May 15th 2007, in his blog titled
Enterprise Integration Patterns in Java.

Apache Camel 1.0 was released on the 2th of July 2007 according to the timestamp in the central Maven repository.
What strikes me as really impressive with the 1.0 release was the envision of its founders to emphasize on making
integration easier using EIPs and DSLs. The first release of Camel had its powerful Java DSL and Spring XML from
the very beginning.

Over the course of time the Camel team have released many Camel releases.
A total of 11 release of the Camel 1.x series.
And so far 10 releases (and 3 milestones) of the Camel 2.x series.

The project has since grown tremendously and today is one of the most popular integration frameworks out there.

In January 2009 the project became a top level project at Apache.

It is believed that one of the first public presentation of Apache Camel at a major conference took place in 2008
where Bruce Snyder presented ActiveMQ and Camel at several conferences.

Since then Camel have appeared in many public presentation, both at major conferences, JUGs and other events.
We do have a number of links to those presentations at the Articles page.

The popularity of the Camel project keep rising and at the end of last year, the Camel in Action book went into print.
Having a book published by the well respected Manning publication is a testimony of the popularity of the project.

Today the Camel team is busy finalizing on the last bits for the upcoming Apache Camel 2.8.0 release.

Happy birthday Camel.

On behalf of the Camel team
Claus Ibsen

The Apache Camel community grew its ranks again this week. Thanks to their high quality contributions the Camel PMC voted Dan Kulp, Jean-Baptiste Onofré and David Valeri to join as new committers.

Dan does not require any introduction, he is one of the main committers to Apache CXF and is helping us not only with the camel-cxf component, but many other improvements related to OSGi and better and faster builds (yes, badly needed).

Jean-Baptiste helped with a lot of improvements around OSGi and helped our community for a long time with fixes and releases in projects that Camel relies on, such as Apache Karaf, but also projects that rely on Camel, like Apache Servicemix.

David's contributions were mostly in the area of security and fixes around the http transport in camel-http and camel-jetty. David is a CXF committer as well.

On behalf of the Camel PMC, many thanks for your contributions and welcome to the community!
Hadrian