A good example application to get you started is the Spring Example.
cd examples/camel-example-spring
mvn camel:hawtio
This starts the example, and bootup the hawtio web console by default on http://localhost:8080/hawtio, which allows you to 'see' what happens with the Camel application running in the JVM. You can visualize the Camel routes in diagrams, as well see performance statistics, and debug or profile routes, and much more. The screen shot below shows the camel-example-spring in action with an table overview of the 3 routes running and some statistics such as number of messages processed and their min/max and average time etc.
Setting up camel:hawtio plugin
In your Maven pom.xml file add the following plugin under plugins: