= Camel Component Starters

Starters are Apache Camel modules intended to be used in Spring Boot applications. 
There is a `camel-xxx-starter` module for each Camel component (with few exceptions listed below).

You should always use the `camel-xxx-starter` modules when using Spring Boot with Camel. These are the Camel components
which are officially supported with Spring Boot. If there is no `camel-xxx-starter` module then the Camel component is not supported on Spring Boot with Camel.

Starters are created to meet the following requirements:

* Allow the auto-configuration of the component through the native spring-boot configuration system (compatible with IDE tooling)
* Manage transitive logging dependencies to better integrate with spring-boot logging system
* Include additional dependencies and align transitive ones to minimize the effort of creating a working spring-boot application
* May include additional features such as additonal configurations, actuators, or health checks

Each starter has its own integration test (in path `tests/camel-itest-spring-boot`) that verifies its compatibility with the current release of spring-boot.

The following components do not have a starter:

* **camel-blueprint** (intended for OSGi only)
* **camel-cdi** (intended for CDI only)
* **camel-eventadmin** (intended for OSGi only)
* **camel-paxlogging** (intended for OSGi only)
* **camel-spark-rest** (does not work with Spring Boot)