Spring Boot

Spring Boot

Available as of Camel 2.15

Spring Boot component provide auto-configuration for the Apache Camel. Our opinionated auto-configuration of the Camel context auto-detects Camel routes available in the Spring context and registers the key Camel utilities (like producer template, consumer template and the type converter) as beans.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-spring-boot</artifactId>
    <version>${camel.version}</version> <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

camel-spring-boot jar comes with the spring.factories file, so as soon as you add that dependency into your classpath, Spring Boot will automatically auto-configure the Camel for you.

Auto-configured Camel context

The most important piece of functionality provided by the Camel auto-configuration is CamelContext instance. Camel auto-configuration creates SpringCamelContext for your and take care of the proper initialization and shutdown of that context. Created Camel context is also registered in the Spring application context (under camelContext bean name), so you can access it just as the any other Spring bean.

@Configuration
public class MyAppConfig {

  @Autowired
  CamelContext camelContext;

  @Bean
  MyService myService() {
    return new DefaultMyService(camelContext);
  }

}

Auto-detecting Camel routes

Camel auto-configuration collects all the RoutesBuilder instances from the Spring context and automatically injects them into the provided CamelContext. It means that creating new Camel route with the Spring Boot starter is as simple as adding the @Component annotated class into your classpath:

@Component
public class MyRouter extends RouteBuilder {

  @Override
  public void configure() throws Exception {
    from("jms:invoices").to("file:/invoices");
  }

}

Or creating new route RoutesBuilder bean in your @Configuration class:

@Configuration
public class MyRouterConfiguration {

  @Bean
  RoutesBuilder myRouter() {
    return new RouteBuilder() {


      @Override
      public void configure() throws Exception {
        from("jms:invoices").to("file:/invoices");
      }

  };
}