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Starting Camel automatically

Our current deployment model is as a war and we have the web.xml to help start things. Well in fact we will leverage Spring to start the world . We use it's ContextListener

	<!-- the listener that kick-starts Spring -->
	<listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
	</listener>

Then we need a standard Spring XML file so we create a new file in src/main/resources and name it camel-config.xml. Before we start editing this XML file we need to link to it from the web.xml file. So we add this snippet to the web.xml:

	<!-- location of spring xml files -->
	<context-param>
	    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>classpath:camel-config.xml</param-value>
	</context-param>

Now we are ready to edit the camel-config.xml file that is a standard Spring XML bean file. So you can add standard spring beans and whatnot you like to do and can do with Spring.

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">

</beans>

Now we are nearly there, we just need to add Camel to the Spring XML file, so Spring knows Camel exists and can start it.