| [[HowdoesCamellookupbeansandendpoints-HowdoesCamellookupbeans,componentsorendpoints]] |
| = How does Camel look up beans, components or endpoints? |
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| There are many times using Camel that a name is used for a bean such as |
| using the xref:components::bean-component.adoc[Bean] endpoint or using the |
| xref:components::bean-language.adoc[Bean Language] to create a |
| xref:expression.adoc[Expression] or xref:predicate.adoc[Predicate] or |
| referring to any xref:component.adoc[Component] or |
| xref:endpoint.adoc[Endpoint]. |
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| Camel uses the xref:registry.adoc[Registry] to resolve names when |
| looking up beans or components or endpoints. Typically this will be |
| xref:spring.adoc[Spring]; though you can use Camel without Spring in |
| which case it will use the xref:jndi.adoc[JNDI] registry implementation. |
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| Lots of test cases in the camel-core module don't use Spring (as |
| camel-core explicitly doesn't depend on spring) - though test cases in |
| camel-spring do. |
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| So you can just define beans, components or endpoints in your |
| xref:registry.adoc[Registry] implementation then you can refer to them |
| by name in the xref:endpoint.adoc[Endpoint] URIs or xref:components::bean-component.adoc[Bean] |
| endpoints or xref:components::bean-language.adoc[Bean Language] expressions. |
