ActiveMQ with Camel basics - apache-camel

Question

I already googled for a while looking for step by step tutorials explaining setup and integration of ActiveMQ with Camel, but had little success to find a basic tutorial.
I already have a running and configured ActiveMQ server but I just can't get the Camel Component up and running. It always creates a separate broker and I just can't make Camel connect to the existing broker instance.
Any hints where I can find basic tutorials on how to integrate Camel and develop a better understanding on how those two work together?
Please do not refere to Camel-Website, as this along with the docs for ActiveMQ where my primary source to fight through the stuff, but it helped only a little on setup, configuration and through understanding of both packages.
Thanks

Answer 1

Following is configuration of Active MQ with camel.
<bean id="jmsConnectionFactory"
class="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory">
<property name="brokerURL" value="tcp://localhost:61616"/>
</bean>
<bean id="pooledConnectionFactory"
class="org.apache.activemq.pool.PooledConnectionFactory" init-method="start" destroy-method="stop">
<property name="maxConnections" value="8"/>
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="jmsConnectionFactory"/>
</bean>
<bean id="jmsConfig"
class="org.apache.camel.component.jms.JmsConfiguration">
<property name="connectionFactory" ref="pooledConnectionFactory"/>
<property name="concurrentConsumers" value="10"/>
</bean>
<bean id="activemq"
class="org.apache.activemq.camel.component.ActiveMQComponent">
<property name="configuration" ref="jmsConfig"/>
</bean>
<camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
<route id="*****">
<from uri="+++++++++" />
<choice>
<to uri="activemq:queue:**********"/>
</choice>
</route>
</camelContext>

Answer 2

You can consider some of the Camel books which has extensive information about all sorts of stuff with Camel, also how to use it with JMS and AMQ.
http://camel.apache.org/books
And there is some examples from AMQ you can look at as well: https://github.com/apache/camel/tree/master/examples
And you can try to find some 3rd party blogs or articles that cover AMQ with Camel: http://camel.apache.org/articles
And recently there was this article about AMQ with Camel:
http://www.puretechy.com/blog/apache-camel-activemq-example