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Apache Camel is designed to make it very easy to drop in new componnets components whether they be routing components, transformers, transports etc. The idea of a component is to be a factory and manager of Endpoints.

Here are the main steps to writing a component.

• write a POJO which implements the Component interface. The simplest approach is just to derive from DefaultComponent
• to support auto-discovery of your component add a file to META-INF/services/org/apache/camel/component/FOO where FOO is the URI scheme for your component and any related endpoints on the fly

Users can then either explicitly create your component, configure it and register with a CamelContext or users can use a URI which auto-creates your component.

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