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• Camel features descriptor allowing to easily and quickly install Camel in Karaf.
• Karaf commands allowing you to view, start, stop, get info, about the Camel contexts and routes running in the Karaf instance.
  NB: Karaf commands are available starting with Camel 2.8.0.

Preparing Karaf for Camel

Camel uses several bundles to provide low level package, such as javax.annotation or javax.xml.bind.

Due to that, we mustn't use the default system package coming from the JDK. It means that we need to "exclude" some packages from system packages in order to use packages provided by tiers bundles.

Camel provides a ready to use config.properties file that you can download:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/tags/camel-2.7.2/platforms/karaf/features/src/main/resources/config.properties^{Image Added}

This file has to be copied into Karaf etc folder.

Install Camel in Karaf

Assuming that you have a running Karaf instance, you can register the Camel features descriptor:

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