Generating and Running an EIP Bundle

Overview

This section explains how to generate, build, and run a complete Apache Camel example in the OSGi container, where the starting point code is generated with the help of a Maven archetype.

Prerequisites

In order to generate a project using an FUSE ESB Maven archetype, you must have the following prerequisites:

Maven installation—Maven is a free, open source build tool from Apache. You can download the latest version from http://maven.apache.org/download.html (minimum is 2.0.9).
Internet connection—whilst performing a build, Maven dynamically searches external repositories and downloads the required artifacts on the fly. In order for this to work, your build machine must be connected to the Internet.
fusesource Maven repository is configured—in order to locate the archetypes, Maven's settings.xml file must be configured with the location of the fusesource Maven repository. For details of how to set this up, see Adding the fusesource repository.

Generating an EIP bundle

The servicemix-osgi-camel-archetype archetype creates a project for building a route that can be deployed into the OSGi container. To generate a Maven project with the coordinates, org.fusesource.example:camel-bundle, enter the following command:

mvn archetype:create
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.servicemix.tooling
-DarchetypeArtifactId=servicemix-osgi-camel-archetype
-DarchetypeVersion=2010.01.0-fuse-02-00
-DgroupId=org.fusesource.example
-DartifactId=camel-bundle

The result of this command is a directory, ProjectDir/camel-bundle, containing the files for the generated bundle project.

Running the EIP bundle

To install and run the generated camel-bundle project, perform the following steps:

Build the project—open a command prompt and change directory to ProjectDir/camel-bundle. Use Maven to build the demonstration by entering the following command:
```
mvn install
```
If this command runs successfully, the ProjectDir/camel-bundle/target directory should contain the bundle file, camel-bundle-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar and the bundle will also be installed in the local Maven repository.
Install prerequisite features (optional)—by default, the camel-core feature and some related features are pre-installed in the OSGi container. But many of the Apache Camel components are not installed by default. To check which features are available and whether or not they are installed, enter the following console command:
```
karaf@root> features:list
```
Apache Camel features are identifiable by the camel- prefix. For example, if one of your routes requires the HTTP component, you can make sure that it is installed in the OSGi container by issuing the following console command:
```
karaf@root> features:install camel-http
```

Install and start the camel-bundle bundle—at the FUSE ESB console, enter the following command:

karaf@root> osgi:install -s file:ProjectDir/camel-bundle/target/camel-bundle-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Where ProjectDir is the directory containing your Maven projects and the -s flag directs the container to start the bundle right away. For example, if your project directory is C:\Projects on a Windows machine, you would enter the following command:

karaf@root> osgi:install -s file:C:/Projects/camel-bundle/target/camel-bundle-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Alternatively, you could install the bundle from the local Maven repository using an Mvn URL (see Mvn URL Handler) as follows:

karaf@root> osgi:install -s mvn:org.fusesource.example/camel-bundle

After entering this command, you should soon see output like the following being logged to the console screen:

>>>> MyTransform set body:  Mon Sep 22 11:43:42 BST 2008
>>>> MyTransform set body:  Mon Sep 22 11:43:44 BST 2008
>>>> MyTransform set body:  Mon Sep 22 11:43:46 BST 2008

	Note
	On Windows machines, be careful how you format the `file` URL—for details of the syntax understood by the `file` URL handler, see File URL Handler.

Stop the camel-bundle bundle—to stop the camel-bundle bundle, you first need to discover the relevant bundle number. To find the bundle number, enter the following console command (this might look a bit confusing, because the text you are typing will intermingle with the output that is being logged to the screen):
```
karaf@root> osgi:list
```
At the end of the listing, you should see an entry like the following:
```
[ 189] [Active     ] [            ] [       ] [   60] A Camel OSGi Service Unit (1.0.0.SNAPSHOT)
```
Where, in this example, the bundle number is 189. To stop this bundle, enter the following console command:
```
karaf@root> osgi:stop 189
```