Camel Maven Plugin
The Camel Maven Plugin is used to run Camel Spring configurations inside Maven for easy testing. A good example application to get you started is the Spring Example.
cd examples/camel-example-spring mvn camel:run
How this works is that the plugin will compile the source code in the maven project, then boot up a Spring ApplicationContext using the XMl confiuration files on the classpath at
META-INF/spring/*.xml
This allows you to boot up any Spring services you wish; whether they are Camel related or any other Spring POJOs.
Visualiation
Camel supports Visualisation to be able to turn your Enterprise Integration Patterns into a nice graphical represenation.
If you run the camel:doc plugin it will boot up your CamelContext just like the camel:run plugin but it will only keep up for a few seconds. During that time
it will generate a DOT file generated in target/site/cameldoc. Then this DOT file will be converted nicely into a HTML report.
mvn camel:doc
Your generated PNG/SVG files will then be in the target/site/cameldoc directory.
Integration into Maven Reports
If you add the camel-maven-plugin to your <reporting> section of your pom you will automatically get the Visualisation reporting generated for your project.
For example add the following into your pom
<project> ... <reporting> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId> <artifactId>camel-maven-plugin</artifactId> </plugin> </plugins> </reporting> </project>
Then when you run
mvn site
Your context will be booted up via the META-INF/spring/*.xml files, the DOT file generated and a nice HTML report created.