Camel is an Open Source integration framework that empowers you to quickly and easily integrate various systems consuming or producing data.
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Camel supports most of the Enterprise Integration Patterns from the excellent book by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, and newer integration patterns from microservice architectures to help you solve your integration problem by applying best practices out of the box.
Apache Camel is standalone, and can be embedded as a library within Spring Boot, Quarkus, Application Servers, and in the clouds. Camel subprojects focus on making your work easy.
Packed with several hundred components that are used to access databases, message queues, APIs or basically anything under the sun. Helping you integrate with everything.
Camel supports around 50 data formats, allowing to translate messages in multiple formats, and with support from industry standard formats from finance, telco, health-care, and more.
Apache Camel K is a lightweight integration framework that runs natively on Kubernetes.
Apache Camel Spring Boot runs Camel on Spring Boot and provides starters for Camel components.
Camel JBang is CLI tooling to easily get started and for building low-code integrations with Camel.
Camel is your project!
Camel is an Apache Software Foundation project, available under the Apache v2 license. It’s a complete open community, always listening to proposals and comments.
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