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Available as of Camel 2.1

When Camel starts (in fact CamelContext) you can configure how routes should be started

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Camel now supports configuring two aspects:

• auto startup
• order of starting routes

Configuring whether Camel should be auto started or not

The old option shouldStartContext have been removed and replaced with this new autoStartup option instead. What it allows is to configure Camel to not auto start when Spring starts.

For example the route below we have configured autoStartup=false to prevent Camel starting when Spring starts.

    <camelContext id="myCamel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring" autoStartup="false">
        <route>
            <from uri="direct:start"/>
            <to uri="mock:result"/>
        </route>
    </camelContext>

So how do you start Camel then?

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The autoStartup option on the <camelContext> is only used once, so you can manually start Camel later by invoking its start method as shown below:

    ApplicationContext ac = ...
    SpringCamelContext camel = (SpringCamelContext) ac.getBean("myCamel");
    
    // now start Camel manually
    camel.start();

Configuring whether a route should be started or not

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