Visualisation

Visualisation

Camel supports the visualisation of your Enterprise Integration Patterns using the GraphViz DOT files which can either be rendered directly via a suitable GraphViz tool or turned into HTML, PNG or SVG files via the Camel Maven Plugin.

Here is a typical example of the kind of thing we can generate

http://activemq.apache.org/camel/maven/camel-spring/cameldoc/index.html

<a href="http://activemq.apache.org/camel/maven/camel-spring/cameldoc/index.html">
<img src="http://activemq.apache.org/camel/maven/camel-spring/cameldoc/routes.png"/>
</a>

For OS X users

If you are using OS X then you can open the DOT file using graphviz which will then automatically re-render if it changes, so you end up with a real time graphical representation of the topic and queue hierarchies!

Also if you want to edit the layout a little before adding it to a wiki to distribute to your team, open the DOT file with OmniGraffle then just edit away