After a bit over two months of hard work we are pleased to introduce the Apache
Camel [1] 2.2.0 Release [2]. Many thanks and our gratitude to all the
contributors who made this release possible. This Valentine's Day edition of
Apache Camel was officially released on Feb 14th. During the past days all the
artifacts were pushed to the public repositories and the Apache mirrors.
This is another major effort featuring 181 issues resolved. The Camel community
is growing at a faster pace and we see a lot of involvement and contributions.
The feature and improvements list is too large to fit here, so please check out
the release notes.
Most notable changes are:
• Graceful Shutdown which ensures a more reliable shutdown of Camel
• File component now delete orphaned lock files on startup to remedy
situions where Camel was abruptly killed
• Improved error message on startup in case where Camel routes are
misconfigured
• Improved logging of exceptions being thrown, which now is logged by
default at ERROR level
• Fixed issue with using Camel annotations on beans proxied with CGLIB
such as when using Hibernate or Spring AOP
• Improvements to Aggregator, Routing Slip, Recipient List and Multicast
• Reduced the optional dependencies on Spring jars
• Added new log in the DSL for logging dynamic human readable messages
(think like doing System.out.println)
• Introduced NotifyBuilder which helps during testing. For example when
testing routes without mocks etc. It will help to notify when a certain
condition has occurred such as X messages is done etc.
And a bunch of new components contributed by the community such as
• camel-jboss for running Camel inside JBoss Application Server which
uses it specialized classloading which prevents typically frameworks to not
work out of the box inside JBoss.
• FTP Now supports FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS)
• SMPP To send and receive SMS using Short Messaging Service Center
using the JSMPP library
• Lucene Uses Apache Lucene to perform Java-based indexing and full
text based searches using advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities
• HDFS For reading/writing from/to an HDFS filesystem
As usual, a lot of fixes and enhancement of the 90+ Components
Download Camel [3] now and enjoy the ride!
The Camel Riders
[1] http://camel.apache.org/
[2] http://camel.apache.org/2010/02/17/camel-220-released.html
[3] http://camel.apache.org/download.html
