Apache Camel 3.x to 4.0 Migration Guide

This document is intended to help you migrate your Apache Camel applications from version 3.20 or higher to 4.0. If you are upgrading from an older Camel 3.x release, such as 3.14, then make sure to read the individual Camel 3.x Upgrade Guide to upgrade to the 3.20 release, prior to upgrade to Camel 4.

If you are upgrading Camel 4.x to 4.y then use the Camel 4.x Upgrade Guide.

Java versions

Camel 4 supports Java 17. Support for Java 11 is dropped.

Removed Components

The following components have been removed:

Component Alternative component(s)

camel-any23

none

camel-atlasmap

none

camel-atmos

none

camel-caffeine-lrucache

camel-cache, camel-ignite, camel-infinispan

camel-cdi

camel-spring-boot, camel-quarkus

camel-corda

none

camel-directvm

camel-direct

camel-dozer

camel-mapstruct

camel-elasticsearch-rest

camel-elasticsearch

camel-gora

none

camel-hbase

none

camel-hyperledger-aries

none

camel-iota

none

camel-ipfs

none

camel-jbpm

none

camel-jclouds

none

camel-johnzon

camel-jackson, camel-fastjson, camel-gson

camel-microprofile-metrics

camel-micrometer, camel-opentelemetry

camel-milo

none

camel-opentracing

camel-micrometer, camel-opentelemetry

camel-rabbitmq

spring-rabbitmq-component

camel-rest-swagger

camel-openapi-rest

camel-restdsl-swagger-plugin

camel-restdsl-openapi-plugin

camel-resteasy

camel-cxf, camel-rest

camel-spark

none

camel-spring-integration

none

camel-swagger-java

camel-openapi-java

camel-websocket

camel-vertx-websocket

camel-websocket-jsr356

camel-vertx-websocket

camel-vertx-kafka

camel-kafka

camel-vm

camel-seda

camel-weka

none

camel-xstream

camel-jacksonxml

camel-zipkin

camel-micrometer, camel-opentelemetry

Logging

Camel 4 has upgraded logging facade API slf4j-api from 1.7 to 2.0.

JUnit 4

All the camel-test modules that were JUnit 4.x based has been removed. All test modules now use JUnit 5.

API Changes

Type of Change API Alternative

Removed

InOptionalOut from org.apache.camel.ExchangePattern

InOut

Removed

@FallbackConverter

@Converter(fallback = true)

Removed

getEndpointMap()

Removed

uri attribute on @EndpointInject, @Produce, and @Consume

Use value (default) instead. For example @Produce(uri = "kafka:cheese") should be changed to @Produce("kafka:cheese")

Removed

label on @UriEndpoint

use category instead.

Removed

consumerClass on @UriEndpoint

Removed

all asyncCallback methods on ProducerTemplate

asyncSend or asyncRequest.

Removed

org.apache.camel.spi.OnCamelContextStart

org.apache.camel.spi.OnCamelContextStarting

Removed

org.apache.camel.spi.OnCamelContextStop

org.apache.camel.spi.OnCamelContextStopping

Removed

Discard and DiscardOldest from org.apache.camel.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolRejectedPolicy

Removed

org.apache.camel.builder.SimpleBuilder

This API was mostly used internally in Camel with the Java DSL in some situations.

Removed

archetypeCatalogAsXml method from org.apache.camel.catalog.CamelCatalog

Removed

configure from the interface org.apache.camel.main.Listener

Removed

getExtension from the interface CamelContext

Use getCamelContextExtension instead. For example ManagedCamelContext managed = context.getCamelContextExtension().getContextPlugin(ManagedCamelContext.class);

Moved

Moved org.apache.camel.support.IntrospectionSupport to camel-core-engine for internal use only

End users should use org.apache.camel.spi.BeanIntrospection instead.

Moved

Exchange failure handling status has moved from being a property defined as ExchangePropertyKey.FAILURE_HANDLED to a member of the ExtendedExchange, accessible via `isFailureHandled()`method.

Replaced

Replaced adapt() from org.apache.camel.CamelContext with getCamelContextExtension

Replaced

Replaced adapt() from org.apache.camel.ExtendedExchange with getExchangeExtension

Added

Added position method to org.apache.camel.StreamCache

Decoupled

Decoupled the org.apache.camel.ExtendedCamelContext from the org.apache.camel.CamelContext

Decoupled

Decoupled the org.apache.camel.ExtendedExchange from the org.apache.camel.Exchange.

Changed

The type for dumpRoutes on CamelContext has changed from boolean to String to allow specifying either xml or yaml.

Changed

The org.apache.camel.health.HealthCheck method isLiveness is now default false instead of true.

Added

Added position method to org.apache.camel.StreamCache

Added

The org.apache.camel.support.EventNotifierSupport abstract class now implements CamelContextAware.
The org.apache.camel.support.PluginHelper gives easy access to various extensions and context plugins, that was available previously in Camel v3 directly from CamelContext.
You can get access to the advanced APIs in CamelContext known as ExtendedCamelContext via context.getCamelContextExtension().

To get hold of ManagedCamelContext then you should use the following way:

ManagedCamelContext managed = camelContext.getCamelContextExtension().getContextPlugin(ManagedCamelContext.class);

This can be done by many other advanced Camel features such as RoutesLoader or ModelToXMLDumper:

RoutesLoader loader = camelContext.getCamelContextExtension().getContextPlugin(RoutesLoader.class);

EIP Changes

Removed lang attribute for the <description> on every EIPs.

The InOnly and InOut EIPs has been removed. Instead, use SetExchangePattern or To where you can specify exchange pattern to use.

Poll Enrich EIP

The polled endpoint URI is now stored as property on the Exchange (with key CamelToEndpoint) like all other EIPs. Before the URI was stored as a message header.

CircuitBreaker EIP

The following options in camel-resilience4j was mistakenly not defined as attributes:

Option

bulkheadEnabled

bulkheadMaxConcurrentCalls

bulkheadMaxWaitDuration

timeoutEnabled

timeoutExecutorService

timeoutDuration

timeoutCancelRunningFuture

These options were not exposed in YAML DSL, and in XML DSL you need to migrate from:

<circuitBreaker>
    <resilience4jConfiguration>
        <timeoutEnabled>true</timeoutEnabled>
        <timeoutDuration>2000</timeoutDuration>
    </resilience4jConfiguration>
...
</circuitBreaker>

To use attributes instead:

<circuitBreaker>
    <resilience4jConfiguration timeoutEnabled="true" timeoutDuration="2000"/>
...
</circuitBreaker>

XML DSL

The <description> to set a description on a route or node, has been changed from an element to an attribute.

Before:

<route id="myRoute">
  <description>Something that this route do</description>
  <from uri="kafka:cheese"/>
  ...
</route>

After:

<route id="myRoute" description="Something that this route do">
  <from uri="kafka:cheese"/>
  ...
</route>

Type Converter

The String → java.io.File converter has been removed.

Tracing

The Tracer and Backlog Tracer no longer includes internal tracing events from routes that was created by Rest DSL or route templates or Kamelets. You can turn this on, by setting traceTemplates=true in the tracer.

The Backlog Tracer has been enhanced and fixed to trace message headers (also streaming types). This means that previously headers of type InputStream was not traced before, but is now included. This could mean that the header stream is positioned at the end, and logging the header afterward may appear as the header value is empty.

UseOriginalMessage / UseOriginalBody

When useOriginalMessage or useOriginalBody is enabled in OnException, OnCompletion or error handlers, then the original message body is defensively copied and if possible converted to StreamCache to ensure the body can be re-read when accessed. Previously the original body was not converted to StreamCache which could lead to the body not able to be read or the stream has been closed.

Camel Health

Health checks are now by default only readiness checks out of the box.

Camel provides the CamelContextCheck as both readiness and liveness checks, so there is at least one of each out of the box.

Only consumer-based health checks are enabled by default.

Producer Health Checks

The option camel.health.components-enabled has been renamed to camel.health.producers-enabled.

Some components, in particular AWS, also provide health checks for producers. In Camel 3.x these health checks did not work properly and has been disabled in the source. To continue this behaviour in Camel 4, then producer-based health checks are disabled.

Notice that camel-kafka comes with producer based health-check that worked in Camel 3, and therefore this change in Camel 4, means that this health-check is disabled.

You MUST enable producer health-checks globally, such as in application.properties:

camel.health.producers-enabled = true

JMX

Camel now also include MBeans for doCatch and doFinally in the tree of processor MBeans.

The ManagedChoiceMBean have renamed choiceStatistics to extendedInformation. The ManagedFailoverLoadBalancerMBean have renamed exceptionStatistics to extendedInformation.

The CamelContextMBean and CamelRouteMBean has removed method dumpRouteAsXml(boolean resolvePlaceholders, boolean resolveDelegateEndpoints).

YAML DSL

The backwards compatible mode Camel 3.14 or older, which allowed to have steps as child to route has been removed.

The old syntax:

- route:
    from:
      uri: "direct:info"
    steps:
    - log: "message"

should be changed to:

- route:
    from:
      uri: "direct:info"
      steps:
      - log: "message"

Backlog Tracing

The option backlogTracing=true now automatic enabled the tracer on startup. The previous behavior was surprisingly that the tracer was only made available, and had to be manually enabled afterward. The old behavior can be archived by setting backlogTracingStandby=true.

Move the following class from org.apache.camel.api.management.mbean.BacklogTracerEventMessage in camel-management-api JAR to org.apache.camel.spi.BacklogTracerEventMessage in camel-api JAR.

The org.apache.camel.impl.debugger.DefaultBacklogTracerEventMessage has been refactored into an interface org.apache.camel.spi.BacklogTracerEventMessage with some additional details about traced messages. For example Camel now captures a first and last trace that contains the input and outgoing (if InOut) messages.

XML serialization

The default XML serialization using ModelToXMLDumper has been improved and now uses a generated XML serializer located in the camel-xml-io module instead of the JAXB based one from camel-jaxb.

OpenAPI Maven Plugin

The camel-restdsl-openapi-plugin Maven plugin now uses platform-http as the default rest component in the generated Rest DSL code. Previously, the default was servlet. However, platform-http is a better default that works out of the box with Spring Boot and Quarkus.

Component changes

Category

The number of enums for org.apache.camel.Category has been reduced from 83 to 37, which means custom components that are using removed values need to choose one of the remainder values. We have done this to consolidate the number of categories of components in the Camel community.

camel-openapi-rest-dsl-generator

This dsl-generator has updated the underlying model classes (apicurio-data-models) from 1.1.27 to 2.0.3.

camel-atom

The camel-atom component has changed the third party atom client from Apache Abdera to RSSReader. This means the feed object is changed from org.apache.abdera.model.Feed to com.apptasticsoftware.rssreader.Item.

camel-azure-cosmosdb

The itemPartitionKey has been updated. It’s now a String a not a PartitionKey anymore. More details in CAMEL-19222.

camel-bean

When using the method option to refer to a specific method, and using parameter types and values, such as: "bean:myBean?method=foo(com.foo.MyOrder, true)" then any class types must now be using .class syntax, i.e. com.foo.MyOrder should now be com.foo.MyOrder.class.

The example from above should now be as follows:

"bean:myBean?method=foo(com.foo.MyOrder.class, true)"

This also applies to Java types such as String, int, etc.:

"bean:myBean?method=bar(String.class, int.class)"

camel-box

Upgraded from Box Java SDK v2 to v4, which have some method signature changes. The method to get a file thumbnail is no longer available.

camel-caffeine

The keyType parameter has been removed. The Key for the cache will now be only String type. More information in CAMEL-18877.

camel-fhir

The underlying hapi-fhir library has been upgraded from 4.2.0 to 6.2.4. Only the Delete API method has changed and now returns ca.uhn.fhir.rest.api.MethodOutcome instead of org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IBaseOperationOutcome. See https://hapifhir.io/hapi-fhir/blog/ for a more detailed list of underlying changes (only the hapi-fhir client is used in Camel).

camel-google

The API-based components camel-google-drive, camel-google-calendar, camel-google-sheets and camel-google-mail has been upgraded from Google Java SDK v1 to v2 and to latest API revisions. The camel-google-drive and camel-google-sheets have some API methods changes, but the others are identical as before.

camel-http

The component has been upgraded to use Apache HttpComponents v5 which has an impact on how the underlying client is configured. There are 4 different timeouts (connectionRequestTimeout, connectTimeout, soTimeout and responseTimeout) instead of initially 3 (connectionRequestTimeout, connectTimeout and socketTimeout) and the default value of some of them has changed so please refer to the documentation for more details.

Please note that the socketTimeout has been removed from the possible configuration parameters of HttpClient, use responseTimeout instead.

Finally, the option soTimeout along with any parameters included into SocketConfig, need to be prefixed by httpConnection., the rest of the parameters including those defined into HttpClientBuilder and RequestConfig still need to be prefixed by httpClient. like before.

camel-http-common

The API in org.apache.camel.http.common.HttpBinding has changed slightly to be more reusable. The parseBody method now takes in HttpServletRequest as input parameter. And all HttpMessage has been changed to generic Message types.

camel-kubernetes

The io.fabric8:kubernetes-client library has been upgraded and some deprecated API usage has been removed. Operations previously prefixed with replace are now prefixed with update.

For example replaceConfigMap is now updateConfigMap, replacePod is now updatePod etc. The corresponding constants in class KubernetesOperations are also renamed. REPLACE_CONFIGMAP_OPERATION is now UPDATE_CONFIGMAP_OPERATION, REPLACE_POD_OPERATION is now UPDATE_POD_OPERATION etc.

camel-web3j

The camel-web3j has upgraded the web3j JAR from 3.x to 5.0 which has many API changes, and so some previous API calls are no long provided.

camel-main

The following constants has been moved from BaseMainSupport / Main to MainConstants:

Old Name

New Name

Main.DEFAULT_PROPERTY_PLACEHOLDER_LOCATION

MainConstants.DEFAULT_PROPERTY_PLACEHOLDER_LOCATION

Main.INITIAL_PROPERTIES_LOCATION

MainConstants.INITIAL_PROPERTIES_LOCATION

Main.OVERRIDE_PROPERTIES_LOCATION

MainConstants.OVERRIDE_PROPERTIES_LOCATION

Main.PROPERTY_PLACEHOLDER_LOCATION

MainConstants.PROPERTY_PLACEHOLDER_LOCATION

camel-micrometer

The metrics has been renamed to follow Micrometer naming convention Naming Meters.

Old Name

New Name

CamelExchangeEventNotifier

camel.exchange.event.notifier

CamelExchangesFailed

camel.exchanges.failed

CamelExchangesFailuresHandled

camel.exchanges.failures.handled

CamelExchangesInflight

camel.exchanges.external.redeliveries

CamelExchangesSucceeded

camel.exchanges.succeeded

CamelExchangesTotal

camel.exchanges.total

CamelMessageHistory

camel.message.history

CamelRoutePolicy

camel.route.policy

CamelRoutePolicyLongTask

camel.route.policy.long.task

CamelRoutesAdded

camel.routes.added

CamelRoutesRunning

camel.routes.running

camel-jbang

The command camel dependencies has been renamed to camel dependency.

In Camel JBang the -dir parameter for init and run goal has been renamed to require 2 dashes --dir like all the other options.

The camel stop command will now by default stop all running integrations (the option --all has been removed).

The Placeholders substitutes is changed to use #name instead of $name syntax.

camel-jpa

The option transactionManager has been removed, and a new option named transactionStrategy has been added, that acts as vendor neutral abstraction to make it easier to configure Spring Transaction or Quarkus Transaction.

camel-openapi-java

The camel-openapi-java component has been changed to use io.swagger.v3 libraries instead of io.apicurio.datamodels. As a result, the return type of the public method org.apache.camel.openapi.RestOpenApiReader.read() is now io.swagger.v3.oas.models.OpenAPI instead of io.apicurio.datamodels.openapi.models.OasDocument. When an OpenAPI 2.0 (swagger) specification is parsed, it is automatically upgraded to OpenAPI 3.0.x by the swagger parser. This version also supports OpenAPI 3.1.x specifications. The related spring-boot starter components have been modified to use the new return type.

camel-optaplanner

The camel-optaplanner component has been change to use SolverManager. If you were using SoverManager in Camel 3, you don’t need anymore the boolean useSolverManager in the Route. Deprecated ProblemFactChange has been replaced by ProblemChange.

The new URI path is:

from("optaplanner:myProblemName")
  .to("...")

You can pass the OptaPlanner SolverManager in 2 ways:

  • as #parameter

  • as header

When running camel-optaplanner on Spring Boot or Quarkus, it is preferable to use the Spring Boot or Quarkus way of creating the SolverManager.

It is possible to migrate legacy Camel OptaPlanner Routes, by putting the XML config file, as show in the code below. Camel OptaPlanner will handle creating the SolverManager for those legacy Routes:

from("optaplanner:myProblemName?configFile=PATH/TO/CONFIG.FILE.xml")
  .to("...")

Solver Daemon solutions should be migrated to use SolverManager.

camel-platform-http-vertx

If the route or consumer is suspended, then http status 503 is now returned instead of 404.

camel-salesforce

Property names of blob fields on generated DTOs no longer have 'Url' affixed. E.g., the ContentVersionUrl property is now just ContentVersion.

camel-slack

The default delay (on Slack consumer) is changed from 0.5s to 10s to avoid being rate limited to often by Slack.

camel-spring-rabbitmq

The option replyTimeout in camel-spring-rabbitmq has been fixed and the default value from 5 to 30 seconds (this is the default used by Spring).

Camel Spring Boot

The camel-spring-boot dependency no longer includes camel-spring-xml. To use legacy Spring XML files <beans> with Camel on Spring Boot, then include the camel-spring-boot-xml-starter dependency.

Graceful Shutdown

Apache Camel shutdowns a bit later during Spring Boot shutdown. This allows Spring Boot graceful shutdown to complete first (stopping Spring Boot HTTP server gracefully), and then afterward Camel is doing its own Graceful Shutdown.

Technically camel-spring has changed getPhase() from returning Integer.MAX_VALUE to Integer.MAX_VALUE - 2049. This gives room for Spring Boot services to shut down first.

camel-micrometer-starter

The uri tags are now static instead of dynamic (by default), as potential too many tags generated due to URI with dynamic values. This can be enabled again by setting camel.metrics.uriTagDynamic=true.

camel-platform-http-starter

The platform-http-starter has been changed from using camel-servlet to use Spring HTTP server directly. Therefore, all the HTTP endpoints are no longer prefixed with the servlet context-path (default is camel).

For example:

from("platform-http:myservice")
  .to("...")

Then calling myservice would before require to include the context-path, such as http://localhost:8080/camel/myservice. Now the context-path is not in use, and the endpoint can be called with http://localhost:8080/myservice.

The platform-http-starter can also be used with Rest DSL.

If the route or consumer is suspended, then http status 503 is now returned instead of 404.

camel-twitter

The component was updated to use Twitter4j version 4.1.2, which has moved the packages used by a few of its classes. If accessing certain twitter-related data, such as the Tweet status, you need to update the packages used from twitter4j.Status to twitter4j.v1.Status.

Upgrading Camel 4.0.1 to 4.0.2

camel-file

The readLock=changed with using readLockMinAge has been restored to same behaviour as 3.x.

For example, using readLockMinAge=5s would pick up files that are older than 5 seconds from startup time. If you have many existing files on startup that are old, then Camel will now again be fast, and pick up these files immediately.

Upgrading Camel 4.0.0 to 4.0.1

camel-aws2-sns

The queueUrl parameter has been replaced by the queueArn parameter

For Example before

from("direct:start")
  .to("aws2-sns://mytopic?subject=mySubject&autoCreateTopic=true&subscribeSNStoSQS=true&queueUrl=https://xxxx")

Should be changed to

from("direct:start")
  .to("aws2-sns://mytopic?subject=mySubject&autoCreateTopic=true&subscribeSNStoSQS=true&queueArn=arn:aws:sqs:xxxxx")