Tooling
Posts in the Tooling category.
Round 4: making Camel work for any AI model, now with intermediate examples
The fourth round of our work to make Camel easy to use for any AI model, and especially for models small enough to run on a laptop or a mini PC. We moved on to intermediate …
Camel Integration Testing Pitfalls
Your integration tests keep failing for non-obvious reasons — or worse, they pass when they shouldn't. The root cause may not be the test itself but Camel routes that got trapped …
Fast and easy integration testing with the Camel CLI Test Plugin
Write integration tests in YAML alongside your Camel routes — no Java, no Maven, no build configuration. Start infrastructure, send Kafka messages, call REST endpoints, verify …
Round 3: making Kamelets AI-ready
A local model knows Camel's components from memory, but hardly knows Kamelets. Once Camel's catalog tools and validator knew them too, Kamelets went from 1 of 15 steps to 47 of 50, …
B.Y.O.A. — Bring Your Own Agent to Camel TUI and Build Integrations with Camel Kit
Camel 4.23 brings ACP coding agents into Camel TUI. Bring your agent's skills and prompts, then use Camel Kit to design and build integrations from the same terminal.
Round 2: a real-world example set, a step-by-step benchmark, and 31 more Camel fixes
The second round of the local-model benchmark moved from thirteen beginner examples to a ladder of real-world ones with a web shop running through them, added a step-by-step mode …
CamelBee: Route Topology and Message Tracing for Deployed Camel Applications
CamelBee is an open-source library that serves a debugger UI from inside a running Camel application: live route topology, a per-hop latency waterfall, and message tracing with …
We had a frontier AI coach a small local model through Camel. It found 99 things wrong for humans too
A frontier model ran the harness, a 22 GB local model on a laptop did the work, and Camel was what we changed between runs: from 0 to 12 of 13 beginner examples over twenty runs, …
Camel TUI: A Low-Code YAML Editor in Your Terminal
The Camel TUI now includes a built-in YAML DSL editor with intelligent Tab completion, validation on save, and support for four AI providers in the AI prompt panel.
Installing the Apache Camel CLI Launcher
Install the Camel CLI Launcher with a single, checksum-verified command on macOS, Linux, and Windows, no JDK setup or separate jbang install required.