Building Camel from Source

Camel uses Maven as its build and management tool. If you don't fancy using Maven you can use your IDE directly or Download a distribution or JAR.

Prequisites

Required:

Download and install Maven
(Maven 3.1.1 or newer is required to build Camel 2.14 onwards)
(Maven 3.2.5 or newer is required to build Camel 2.18 onwards)
Get the latest Source
Java
(1.7 or 1.8 to build Camel 2.14 onwards)
(1.8 to build Camel 2.18 onwards)

Optional:

Prince should be in the executable PATH to generate the PDF documentation

Maven options

To build camel maven has to be configured to use more memory

Unix/Linux/Mac

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Windows

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A normal build

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Cloning the Git Repository

Either follow instructions about getting the latest source, or clone the Git repository with Eclipse by selecting "File -> Import -> Git / Projects from Git" and "Clone URI". Provide all repository details in the import wizard and clone the repository into a directory outside of the Eclipse workspace. Once cloning has completed, exit the import project wizard (i.e. simply select cancel when asked to select "Wizard for project import").

Import Maven Projects

Import Camel projects as Maven projects using m2e by selecting "File -> Import -> Maven -> Existing Maven Projects". Point the wizard to the root directory of the cloned repository. Eclipse will analyze all Camel projects and eventually present the following summary:

Simply confirm the import of all projects by clicking "Finish". The import process will create Eclipse projects and automatically set up build paths using dependency details provided by the pom.xml files. Once completed, all Camel projects will be available in your workspace:

maven-eclipse-plugin

The maven-eclipse-plugin can be used to generate the .classpath/.project/.settings file that Eclipse need. To do this, run:

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