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Packed with functionality

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Patterns

Based on Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) to help you solve your integration problem by applying best practices out of the box. Camel supports most of the Enterprise Integration Patterns from the excellent book by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, and newer integration patterns from microservice architectures. {{< /div >}} {{< /div >}}

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Components

Packed with several hundred components that are used to access databases, message queues, APIs or basically anything under the sun. Helping you integrate with everything. {{< /div >}} {{< /div >}}

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Runtimes

Runs everywhere: Standalone, embedded as a library within Spring Boot, Quarkus, Application Servers, and in the clouds. {{< /div >}} {{< /div >}}

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Data Formats

Camel supports around 50 data formats, allowing to translate messages in multiple formats, and with support from industry standard formats from finance, telco, health-care, and more. {{< /div >}} {{< /div >}}

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Camel K

Apache Camel K runs natively on Kubernetes.

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Camel

Apache Camel is the Swiss knife of integration.

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Quarkus

Apache Camel Quarkus run Camel on Quarkus.

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Kafka

Apache Camel Kafka Connector embeds Camel within Kafka Connect.

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Spring Boot

Apache Camel Spring Boot run Camel on Spring Boot.

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Karaf

Apache Camel Karaf run Camel in OSGi container using Apache Karaf.

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Apache & OpenSource

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Camel is your project!

Camel is an Apache Software Foundation project, available under the Apache v2 license. It's a complete open community, always listening to proposals and comments.

Sources, mailing lists, issue tracker: it's fully open, you can access directly.

We also love contributions: don't hesitate to contribute. You can contribute by editing this page!

Be Involved In The Community | How To Contribute

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