Chapter 2. Core Concepts

This chapter introduces the core concepts of Camel. These concepts are the key basis of all functionalities provided by Camel. We will use them in the next chapters. As we have seen in the previous chapter, Camel is an integration framework. This means that it provides everything to implement your mediation logic: messaging, routing, transformation, and connectivity.

We will look at the following concepts:

• Messages
• Exchanges
• Camel contexts