[CAMEL-15273] Can I avoid the starters?

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.0
• Component/s: camel-spring-boot-starters
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Corneliu C
• Created: 03/Jul/20 18:12
• Updated: 03/Jul/20 19:36
• Resolved: 03/Jul/20 19:36

Description

Hi,

I have a hard-time understanding how and why to use the new 3.4.x starters vs individual components, but this is what the documentation suggests.

I have a hard time because they bring unnecessary JAR's which I have now to manage in pom.xml via exclusions.

For example:

<!-- Camel -->
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
 <artifactId>camel-support</artifactId>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
 <artifactId>camel-jsonpath-starter</artifactId>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
 <artifactId>camel-jackson-starter</artifactId>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
 <artifactId>camel-jaxb-starter</artifactId>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
 <artifactId>camel-metrics-starter</artifactId>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
 <artifactId>camel-soap-starter</artifactId>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
 <artifactId>camel-disruptor-starter</artifactId>
 </dependency>

 

Each of these starters now bring me the spring-boot-starter-logging which I don't need as I'm using Log4J2 for this. As a result I have now both log4J2 and logback in my classpath. Obviously I can add exclusions but then what's the point of the starters?

Unless there's something subtle which I don't understand yet, I find the starters to be really targeting the lazy; I fail to see why is not enough to add camel-spring-boot-starter for the purpose of having Spring Boot and next just add the regular Apache Camel's components?

Ok, if starters are a nice to have thing, is it ok then to ignore them and simply add the regular Camel components to avoid this extra work? Can this be documented?

 

Thank you