Building Camel from Source
Camel uses Maven as its build and management tool. If you don't fancy using Maven you can use your IDE directly or Download a distribution or JAR.
Prequisites
Required:
- Download and install Maven.
(Maven 2.2.1 or better is required to build Camel 2.5 onwards).
(Maven 3.0.2 or better is required to build Camel 2.10 onwards).
![]() | A note about using Maven 3.0.4+
If you intend to build Camel 2.10 onwards using Maven 3.0.4+ then beforehand please delete any potential .m2 cache you may have for the POM of org.iso_relax.verifier.jaxp.validation:isorelax-jaxp-bridge:jar:1.0. If interested, the reason for this has been explained here. |
- Get the latest Source
- Java 1.6
(Java 1.5 is @deprecated and no longer supported from Camel 2.7 onwards)
(Java 1.7 is supported from Camel 2.10 onwards)
Optional:
- Prince should be in the executable PATH to generate the PDF documentation
Maven options
To build camel maven has to be configured to use more memory
set MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m"
A normal build
A normal build without running tests
mvn clean install -Pfastinstall
A normal build without running tests but checkstyle verification enabled
mvn clean install -Pfastinstall,sourcecheck
Doing a Quick Build
Available as of Camel 2.6
The following skips building the manual, the distro and does not execute the unit tests.
mvn install -Pfastinstall
Using an IDE
If you prefer to use an IDE then you can auto-generate the IDE's project files using maven plugins. e.g.
or
Adding Camel Eclipse templates to your workspace
mvn -Psetup.eclipse -Declipse.workspace.dir=/path/to/your/workspace
You can also find some helpful notes on usage here.
Importing into Eclipse
If you have not already done so, you will need to make Eclipse aware of the Maven repository so that it can build everything. In the preferences, go to Java->Build Path->Classpath and define a new Classpath Variable named M2_REPO that points to your local Maven repository (i.e., ~/.m2/repository on Unix and c:\Documents and Settings\<user>\.m2\repository on Windows).
You can also get Maven to do this for you:
mvn eclipse:configure-workspace -Declipse.workspace=/path/to/the/workspace/
Building with checkstyle
To enable source style checking with checkstyle, build Camel with the -Psourcecheck parameter
mvn -Psourcecheck clean install
Building source jars
If you want to build jar files with the source code, that for instance Eclipse can important so you can debug the Camel code as well. Then you can run this command from the camel root folder:
mvn clean source:jar install -Pfastinstall
Building with Spring 3.1
From Camel 2.10.0 onwards, if you want Camel to be build against Spring 3.1 you have to build with the maven profile spring3.1.
mvn clean install -Pspring3.1
Working with features
If you change anything in the features.xml from platform/karaf you can run a validation step to ensure the generated features.xml file is correct. You can do this running the following maven goal from the platform directory.
mvn clean install -Pvalidate
See Also
