Camel is designed to be small lightweight and extremely modular so that you only pay for what you use. The core of camel, camel-core.jar is small and has minimal DEPENDENCIES.

On Java 6 camel-core.jar only depends on

commons-management.jar (for Camel 2.8 or older)

commons-logging.jar (for Camel 2.6 or older)

slf4j-api.jar (from Camel 2.7 ONWARDS)

On Java 5 camel-core.jar depends ALSO on activation.jar and a JAXB2 implementation which typically involves jaxb-api.jar, jaxb-impl.jar and a StAX API which may be stax-api.jar and *woodstox.jar

Camel is designed to be small lightweight and extremely modular so that you only pay for what you use. The core of camel, camel-core.jar is small and has minimal dependencies.

On Java 6 camel-core.jar only depends on

commons-management.jar (for Camel 2.8 or older)

commons-logging.jar (for Camel 2.6 or older)

slf4j-api.jar (from Camel 2.7 onwards)

On Java 5 camel-core.jar depends also on activation.jar and a JAXB2 implementation which typically involves jaxb-api.jar, jaxb-impl.jar and a StAX API which may be stax-api.jar and *woodstox.jar