My trip to JavaZone 2018
This week I am attending and speaking at the   JavaZone   2018 conference in Oslo. I was here last time 7 years ago, so it was good to be back. The weather is very nice with rainbows and unicorns and everything ... well only rainbows. As a speaker I was ask...

Official Apache Camel branded swags available for sale
Hi Cameleers, with great joy I'm happy to announce that Camel branded swag: T-Shirts, Cases, Posters, Mugs, Notebooks and a whole lot more, is available at the official Apache Software Foundation store at Redbubble. The store is here: https://www.redbubble....

Camel Riders in the Cloud - 30 minute video now online
Last week I presented a DevNation Live session - Camel Riders in the Cloud . Apache Camel has fundamentally changed the way enterprise Java™ developers think about system-to-system integration by making enterprise integration patterns (EIP) a simple declara...

Heavy training for upcoming Camel talks
I am busy with fitness training to get into shape for a number of upcoming Camel talks I am doing the next 3 to 4 months. I would like to give a big thank you to Andrea Cosentino and Zoran Regvart for designing and creating these new awesome Apache Camel t-...

My Boston travel and finally holding the little Camel book in my hands
I have been on a week long visit in Boston where I have been spreading the good word about Apache Camel. On Monday we had an analyst doing interviews with various thought leaders in various spaces. I was of course there about integration and Apache Camel. T...

Apache Camel 2.22 Released with Spring Boot 2 support
Today we released the latest Apache Camel 2.22.0 release which is the first release to officially fully support Spring Boot 2. This is a major effort as the Spring Boot v1 to v2 upgrade for a big framework like Apache Camel took some effort - so many thanks...

10 Years as Apache Camel committer
Yesterday, on March 25th 2018, I have been an Apache Camel committer for 10 years. It all started with this first commit : commit 5f0f55a4f14fe061e96eeca4cff60a1577cd5969 Author: Claus Ibsen Date:   Tue Mar 25 20:07:10 2008 +0000     Added unit test for mis...

Apache Camel 2.21 Released - Whats New
We have just released Apache Camel 2.21 and I will in this blog highlight the noteworthy changes. This release do NOT support Spring Boot 2. Support for Spring Boot 2 will come in Camel 2.22, which we plan to release before summer 2018. 1) Working with larg...

Playing stacking tower with my Camel books
Today I received my author copies of the new Camel in Action 2nd edition book . There were 3 boxes, with 10x, 10x and 5x pieces. They weigh in total 83 lbs (38 kg), so its heavy stuff. I had grabbed one book from my latest Boston travel so I have 26 books i...

Camel in Action 2nd edition book - 50% discount today
Manning is having our new book, Camel in Action 2nd edition , as deal of the day on Friday 9th 2018 which means you can order the book with 50% discount. This is for both the e-book or the combi with both p-book and e-book. The coupon code (discount code) t...