Chapter 4. Beans

In the previous chapter, we saw one of the key, and very helpful, Camel components—the processor. However, a processor is tied to Camel as it extends the org.apache.camel.Processor interface.

This means that in order to reuse some existing beans in your application, you have to wrap it in a processor, meaning additional code to be maintained.

Fortunately, Camel has extensive support for POJO and beans, and bean model frameworks such as Spring or Blueprint.

In this chapter, we will see:

• How Camel looks for beans in different registries and the different registry implementations

• How Camel acts as a service activator to load the beans and bind the parameters

• The Camel annotations that enables advanced binding

• The Camel language annotations that allow the usage of code in parameter binding