Eclipse with Red Hat Codeready (Fuse Integration) developing for Wildfly Application Server

Question

I'm a little bit con-fuse-d with Red Hats Fuse tooling. Here's what I'd like to do: Design Camel Routes with Eclipse (2020-03) and then deploy them to a Wildfly server (16 or 18) with the wildfly-camel patch applied.

This generally works, BUT:

1. The version of Fuse in the tool is 7.6 (latest) with a highest available camel version of 2.21(!) which is very old. The wildfly-camel patch already supports camel 3.0. on wildfly 18. Question: Is it possible to "update" Fuse Tooling within Codeready to newer versions of camel?

2. Fuse itself supports lots of camel components / connectors as can be seen here. But not all of them are available in Codeready. Plus that some of the components state to be compatible for example with camel versions greater than 2.8. Question: How to add these components to the visual design UI of Fuse Tooling?

I fear that it all is a matter of the outdated version of camel, but I want to be sure that I didn't miss anything. To those who know: Are there any plans of updating the Tool for Eclipse?

Answer 1

Fuse Tools for Eclipse is primarily designed to work with Red Hat Fuse which, as you rightly point out, aligns to specific supported versions of Apache Camel.

But, you should be able to create your own Wildfly-Camel project (or use one of the examples) and still use the graphical route editor to add newer components. You'll need to drag a Generic component from the palette and then untick Show only palette components, which should show you all the components available, including ones from newer releases of Camel:

Just tested this with:

• Fresh install of Eclipse 2020.03 with Fuse Tools installed
• Latest clone of Wildfly-Camel-Examples repo
• Opening camel-jms-spring project in Eclipse
• Opening src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/camel-context.xml with the graphical route editor
• Dragging a new Generic component, XSLT-Saxon, from the Palette.