Cheers — fabric8 Camel Maven Plugin to validate Camel endpoints from source code

Today I recorded a 12 minute video to demonstrate the new fabric8 camel-maven-plugin that is able to validate all your Camel endpoints from the source code. This allows to ensure your endpoints are valid before you run your Camel applications or unit tests. And it helps you catch those type errors or if you use invalid values for the options and so on.

The fabric8 camel-maven-plugin can be run from within your Java editor as I demonstrate in the video, and of course from the command line. The plugin is able to parse both XML and Java code (the latter uses Eclipse JDT). So should be useful for all schools of Camel users.

We hope to improve on the plugin to have tighter integration in the editors such as IDEA and Eclipse, so you can have in-place Camel endpoint validation and code assistance while typing your Camel endpoints. We are working together with the JBoss Forge team to add the necessary hooks and apis that allows this plugin and the Camel forge commands to tie into that.

Cheers and have a beer its the weekend soon, and yesterday Apache Camel 2.16.2 and hawtio 1.4.60 was released. That is a good excuse for grabbing a beer or a glass of wine.

Originally published at www.davsclaus.com on January 30, 2016.