Make Your Bus A Camel :- Apache Camel

Enterprise Integration can often be a painful process. Do you find yourself thinking “there has to be a better way” every time you integrate software? Do you wonder why you and other Java developers spend so much of their time writing code in XML? Is testing your ESB an error prone, manual process? When somebody suggests “we should try to make ESB components more reusable”, do you laugh at the noob? When somebody asks “how do we handle errors in the ESB?”, do your developers show the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? There is a better way.

Apache Camel is an Enterprise Integration Patterns and Transport framework that can solve many of the problems that plague the enterprise developers today. Camel supports integrations via components such as CXF, RDBMS, NoSQL, JMS, FTP, SSH, SFTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP, ATOM/RSS, Git, SVN, MongoDB, LinkedIn, Printers, etc., etc., etc. You get the idea! And all of this is available for your use via “routes” that you can develop using Spring, Java Fluent API, Guice, Blueprint and more.

In this talk we will introduce you to Apache Camel, it’s uses and it’s power! Learn about the vast number of components available to you “out-of-the-box”, how to mediate, how to handle errors, how to unit-test and so much more. Join us at the June meeting of the Grand Rapids Java Users Group to learn about the Apache Camel Framework and how it can free you from monotony, pain and busy work… freeing up your time to do the cool things you want to do and giving you the competative edge you may be looking for.