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The starting guide is a good place to start:
Getting startedStarted

And the concrete walk through a plain old java main example
Walk through an exampleExample

The FAQ have some more details.
Faq

And if you use Maven for your projects Camel has maven tools to boot up in standalone mode and quickly run you Camel application
Camel maven pluginMaven Plugin

This is how you can run the Examples that is included in the Camel distribution.
In Camel 1.4 we will also have ANT build.xml files to quickly start the examples standalone.