Hi Jimi, We really love contributions so please feel free to make notes and edit the wiki. I usually create components using maven as shown here; http://camel.apache.org/creating-a-new-camel-component.html
Change the version and run, you'll have a working project in seconds. Have fun. > On 06 Dec 2015, at 18:35, <jimi.hulleg...@svensktnaringsliv.se> > <jimi.hulleg...@svensktnaringsliv.se> wrote: > > I'm evaluating Camel for a coming project, and so far it looks pretty > impressive. But I would like to try and write my own endpoint implementation, > just to test it out, and the documentation on the website is a bit lacking, > to say the least. At the minimum, one would think one could find a complete > example, in java code, but I can't find any. > > The documentation I found was this page: > http://camel.apache.org/how-can-i-create-a-custom-component-or-endpoint.html > > It then refers me to this page: > http://camel.apache.org/writing-components.html > > And under the section "Writing Endpoints" it basically just mentions that I > should extend DefaultEndpoint, and implement the methods createProducer() > and/or createConsumer(), but it doesn't say anything on *how* I do that. From > reading the documentation and reading the javadoc, I still have no idea on > how to actually write the code. Let's say that to learn this, I want to write > an EndPoint that outputs some random famous quotes. Or even simpler still, it > could just output the same String over and over. How would I go about doing > that? > > I also looked at the examples in the release zip file, but I couldn't find > any java-file with the text "Endpoint" in the name, so I assume there is no > such example to be found there. > > Regards > /Jimi