Chapter 181. Vertx

Vertx Component

Available as of Camel 2.12
The vertx component is for working with the Vertx EventBus.
The vertx EventBus sends and receives JSON events.
Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-vertx</artifactId>
    <version>2.17.0.redhat-630187</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>
Note
From Camel 2.16 onwards, uses Vertx 3 which requires Java 8 at run time.

URI format

vertx:channelName[?options]
You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?option=value&amp;option=value&amp;...

Options

Name
Default Value
Description
pubSub
false
Camel 2.12.3: Whether to use publish/subscribe instead of point to point when sending to a vertx endpoint.

Connecting to the existing Vert.x instance

If you would like to connect to the Vert.x instance already existing in your JVM, you can set the instance on the component level: 
Vertx vertx = ...;
VertxComponent vertxComponent = new VertxComponent();
vertxComponent.setVertx(vertx);
camelContext.addComponent("vertx", vertxComponent);