Camel Terminologies

A component is to be a factory and manager of Endpoints.


The Injector is a pluggable strategy to any IoC container such as Spring or Guice to be able to create and dependency-inject objects of a certain type.


HawtDB is a very lightweight and embedable key value database. It allows together with Camel to provide persistent support for various Camel features such as Aggregator.


Apache Camel’s SEDA (Staged Event-Driven Architecture) endpoints (http://camel.apache.org/seda.html) provide a useful and quick mechanism to implement asynchronous, event-driven processing within your applications. See http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/proj/seda/ for the original description of the SEDA architecture.