At the end of 2019 Camel 3 arrived. Some main features were modularization of the core and support for Java 11. A bunch of other changes were mentioned in Claus Ibsen’s blog: Apache Camel 3 What’s New (top 10) In this blog, we focus on the top 10 of features that arrived since the 3.0 release. As an overview, but also to give some attention to features not everyone is aware of.
In the last weeks, together with Claus, we’ve been working on a new feature: loading properties from Vault/Secrets cloud services. It will arrive with Camel 3.16.0, currently on vote and to be released by the end of this week (24/3). This post introduces the new features and provide some examples. Secrets Management in Camel In the past there were many discussions around the possibility of managing secrets in Camel through Vault Services.
Many developers know that Apache Camel is one of the most active Apache projects. Consider the top 3 Apache Code Authors in 2021: Andrea Cosentino: 4,447 commits (352,346 insertions, 399,815 deletions) Claus Ibsen: 2,974 commits (555,245 insertions, 567,896 deletions) Mark Thomas: 2,509 commits (186,889 insertions, 117,182 deletions) The first two places are occupied by Camel committers. In 2021 the Camel project also reached the second place when it’s about the number of commits (9541), just behind Superset.