I recently started working on an Apache Camel project at work. The application in question would, I imagine, have been an atypical use case for Apache Camel. It was used primarily for the DSL definition of a series of RESTful calls to dependent services. These routes were leveraged by the application’s controller layer. My approach at the beginning and my approach by the end were pretty different. Unless stated the below are examples are taken from the Apache Camel Wish I’d Known sample code on GitHub.

CucumberJS is a NodeJS implementation of a test runner which is powered by the Gherkin syntax. It’s integration with our team workflow has been a boon to clarity of purpose for stories in firstly SCRUM and now KANBAN. Here I will share some of things we’re doing and the benefits we reap. When writing a story the team gathers around a screen and we work on a shared text. Straight away this increases collaboration and removes a lot of later disagreements around ‘I thought we said we would do X after Y’.