Routing messages directly to a Java method

When you just want to send the message received from an endpoint directly to one of your Java methods, Camel provides a Bean Integration capability called POJO Consuming. POJO Consuming allows you to annotate a Java method with the Camel URI for the endpoint that you want to receive messages from. Messages will be passed directly to that Java method.

Through an example, this recipe will demonstrate to you how to annotate a Java method to act as a JMS (or WS, or TCP/IP, or any other Camel consuming endpoint) listener, in the same way as a Java EE Message Driven Bean (MDB). It will also provide you with the ability to run the code inside an environment as simple as a standalone Java process, with no extra container required.

This recipe will show you how to annotate your Java code so that it will be called with messages received from any specified Camel endpoint.

Getting ready

The Java code for this recipe is located in the org.camelcookbook.extend.consume...