D.4. Camel-extra project

Camel ships with a large number of components, but there are also other components available separately from the camel-extra project at Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/camel-extra). The main motivator for not including all Camel components in the main distribution is licensing. Apache Camel is developed and distributed under the Apache License, version 2. The camel-extra project contains components that integrate with libraries that have GPL and LGPL licenses, which are incompatible with Apache.

At camel-extra, you’ll find components for integrating with the following, among others: