Difference between using camel main and operating directly on context object

Question

I am creating my first camel standalone application. I saw some examples for this. There seem to be two flavors:

• using Main class and do setup (adding routes...) on this then call Main.run()
• creating a DefaultCamelContext object and then call start() on it

What are the differences between both ways? In my case i create the Context in a separate class and because there is no method to set the context into main i have to use context directly. but i want to know what main delivers in addition, probably i have to implement some additional stuff?!

Answer 1

The difference is one is to make it easier to bootup a Camel app in a JVM and have it keep running etc. And the other is to start a context using its start method.

You can find more details here

• http://camel.apache.org/running-camel-standalone-and-have-it-keep-running.html

And then the javadoc of the CamelContext and its start method

• http://camel.apache.org/maven/current/camel-core/apidocs/org/apache/camel/CamelContext.html