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The best practice for stopping a route from a route, is to either

• signal to another thread to stop the route
• spin off a new thread to stop the route

Using another thread to stop the route is also what is normally used when stopping Camel itself, or for example when an application in a server is stopped etc. Its too tricky and hard to stop a route using the same thread that currently is processing a message from the route. This is not advised to do, and can cause unforeseen side effects.

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And CamelContext also provides API for suspend/resume of routes, and shutdown as well.

• suspend/resume is faster than stop/start. For example a HTTP server will still run but deny any incoming requests.
  Where as if it was stopped the HTTP listener would have been stopped.
• shutdown means the route is being removed from CamelContext and cannot be started again. Its also removed from JMX.
  A route must have been stopped prior to be shutdown.

See more details about the Lifecycle.

See Also

• RoutePolicy
• Graceful Shutdown
• Lifecycle
• ControlBus