Components and bean support

Apache Camel ships with a wide variety of components out of the box; currently, there are more than 100 components available.

We can see:

• The connectivity components that allow exposure of endpoints for external systems or communicate with external systems. For instance, the FTP, HTTP, JMX, WebServices, JMS, and a lot more components are connectivity components. Creating an endpoint and the associated configuration for these components is easy, by directly using a URI.

• The internal components applying rules to the messages internally to Camel. These kinds of components apply validation or transformation rules to the inflight message. For instance, validation or XSLT are internal components.

Thanks to this, Camel brings a very powerful connectivity and mediation framework.

Moreover, it's pretty easy to create new custom components, allowing you to extend Camel if the default components set doesn't match your requirements.

It's also very easy to implement complex integration logic by creating your own processors and reusing your beans. Camel supports beans frameworks (IoC), such as Spring or Blueprint.