Configuring Camel With Spring No Xml

Question

I am trying to configure Camel using Spring using only annotations and straight up Java. Here is a route I have created:

@Produce(uri = "activemq:my.route")
ProducerTemplate producer;

@RequestMapping(value = "/test", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public void testCamel()
{
    producer.sendBody("TEST");
}

A camel context is needed, which I am trying to define in my AppConfig class:

My current version:

@Autowired
private ApplicationContext applicationContext;

@Bean
    public CamelContext camelContext() throws Exception {
        SpringCamelContext springCamelContext = new SpringCamelContext(applicationContext);
        springCamelContext.addRoutes(new com.bigideas.routing.Routes());

        return springCamelContext;
    }

The Routes class is just an empty class that extends RouteBuilder.

The problem is that when I actually call the testCamel method, my producer is null. I know I can do the context in an xml configuration file, I was just wondering what I am doing wrong when not using xml.

kamil kamil · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-02T07:48:43

I believe you should follow instructions here: http://camel.apache.org/spring-java-config.html , so one @Configuration class extending CamelConfiguration with @ComponentScan.

Moreover your com.bigideas.routing.Routes should be w Spring Bean too (@Bean or @Component)

Configuring Camel With Spring No Xml

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