1 Meeting Camel
This chapter covers
- An introduction to Camel
- Camel’s main features
- Your first Camel ride
- Camel’s architecture and concepts
Building complex systems from scratch is a costly endeavor, and one that’s almost never successful. An effective and less risky alternative is to assemble a system like a jigsaw puzzle from existing, proven components. We depend daily on a multitude of such integrated systems, making possible everything from phone communications, financial transactions, and health care to travel planning and entertainment.
You can’t finalize a jigsaw puzzle until you have a complete set of pieces that plug into each other simply, seamlessly, and robustly. That holds true for system integration projects as well. But ...
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