I'm new to Apache Camel. Can someone explain what "direct:start" means in Camel. Please see
from("direct:start")
.to("http://myhost/mypath");
Thanks.
The "direct:start" above is simply saying that the route starts with a Direct Component named "start".
The direct endpoint provides synchronous invocation of a route. If you want to send an Exchange
to the direct:start endpoint you would create a ProducerTemplate
and use the various send methods.
ProducerTemplate template = context.createProducerTemplate();
template.sendBody("direct:start", "This is a test message");
There is nothing special about the name start
. It is simply the name you are going to use when referring to the endpoint and could have just as easily been direct:foo
.