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This month we celebrate the 4 year birthday of the Apache Camel project. Camel was conceived as a sub project from Apache ActiveMQ project.
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In fact the first commit of the project to Apache was done by one of its founders, James Strachan, on March 19th 2007.

The first public announcement of the project as posted on a blog by James on May 15th 2007, in his blog titled
Enterprise Integration Patterns in Java.

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It is believed that one of the first public presentation of Apache Camel at a major conference took place in 2008
where Bruce Snyder presented ActiveMQ and Camel
at several conferences.

Since then Camel have appeared in many public presentation, both at major conferences, JUGs and other events.
We do have a number of links to those presentations at the Articles page.

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