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In Camel terms a binding is a way of wrapping an Endpoint in a contract; such as a Data Format, a Transformation Content Enricher or validation step. Bindings are completely optional and you can choose to use them on any camel endpoint.

Bindings are inspired by the work of SwitchYard project(http://www.jboss.org/switchyard^{Image Removed}) adding service contracts to various technologies like Camel and many others. But rather than the SwitchYard approach of wrapping Camel in SCA, Camel Bindings provide a way of wrapping Camel endpoints with contracts inside the Camel framework itself; so you can use them easily inside any Camel route.

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