| Welcome to Apache Camel |
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| Apache Camel is a powerful rule based routing and mediation engine which |
| provides a POJO based implementation of the Enterprise Integration Patterns |
| using an extremely powerful fluent API (or declarative Java Domain Specific |
| Language) to configure routing and mediation rules. The Domain Specific |
| Language means that Apache Camel can support type-safe smart completion of |
| routing rules in your IDE using regular Java code without huge amounts of |
| XML configuration files; though Xml Configuration inside Spring is also |
| supported. |
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| Apache Camel uses generics, annotations and URIs so that it can easily work |
| directly with any kind of Transport or messaging model such as HTTP, JMS, JBI, |
| SCA, MINA or CXF Bus API without mandating a normalized message API which can |
| often lead to leaky abstractions. Apache Camel is also a small library which |
| has minimal dependencies for easy embedding in any Java application. |
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| Getting Started |
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| To help you get started, try the following links: |
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| Getting Started |
| http://activemq.apache.org/camel/getting-started.html |
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| Building |
| http://activemq.apache.org/camel/building.html |
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| We welcome contributions of all kinds, for details of how you can help |
| http://activemq.apache.org/camel/contributing.html |
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| Please refer to the website for details of finding the issue tracker, email lists, wiki or IRC channel |
| http://activemq.apache.org/camel/ |
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| Please help us make Apache ActiveMQ better - we appreciate any feedback you may have. |
| Enjoy! |
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| The Apache ActiveMQ team |
