Kura

In part #1 and part #2, we saw how easy it is to interface Apache Camel with Kura Wires. Simply by re-using some existing functionality. A few lines of XML, Groovy and you can already build an IoT solution based on the Camel ecosystem and the Eclipse Kura runtime. This part will focus on the Java DSL of Apache Camel.

It will also take into account, that when you develop and deploy an application, you need some kind of development, test and integration environment. When you build something, no matter how big, based on Camel or Kura Wires, you do want to test it. You want to have unit tests, and the capability to automatically test if your solution works, or still works after you made changes.

Using Kura Wires alone, this can be a problem. But Camel offers you a way to easily run your solution in a local IDE, debugging the whole process. You can have extra support for debugging Camel specific constructs like routes and endpoints. Camel has support for JUnit and e.g. using the “seda” endpoints, you can in create an abstraction layer between Camel and Wires.

The goal

I’ll make this one up (and yes, let’s try to keep it realistic). We have a device, and his device allows to set two parameters for its operation (P1 and P2, both floating points). Now we already have the device connection set up in Kura. Maybe using Modbus, or something else. Kura can talk to it using Kura Wires and that is all that counts.

Now we do get two additional requirements. There is some kind of operating panel next to the device, which should allow viewing and setting those parameters locally. Also, those parameters should be accessible, using IEC 60870-5-104, for an additional device, right next to the Kura gateway.

All of those operations have to be local only, and still work when no connection to the cloud is possible. But of course, we don’t want to lose the ability to monitor the parameters from our cloud system.

The operator panel will, of course, be programmed in the newest and hippest Web UI technology possible. It is super easy to fire a few HTTP API calls and encode everything in JSON. While, at the same time, the IEC 60870 layer has no idea about complex data structures. The panel application will send a full update of both parameters, while the 60870 client, due to the nature of this protocol, will only send one parameter at a time.

Doesn’t sound too unrealistic, does it?

The project structure

The full project source code is available at ctron/kura-examples, on GitHub. So this blog post will only focus on some important spots of the whole project.

The project is a standard Maven project, and thus has the typical project structure:

There are only three important differences to a standard Java Maven project:

The packaging type is bundle, which requires the maven-bundle-plugin. It will create an OSGi bundle JAR, instead of a plain JAR file. This is required as the Kura IoT gateway is based on OSGi.

We will create a “DP” package at the end of the build, using the OSGi DP Maven Plugin. This package can directly be uploaded to the Kura instance. As this plugin does include direct dependencies, but doesn’t include transient dependencies (on purpose), the project declares a few dependencies as “provided” to prevent them from being re-packaged in the final DP package.

The project uses the maven-antrun-plugin to download and unpack the static Swagger UI resources. Swagger UI is just a convenience for playing around with the REST API later on. Camel will take care of creating the OpenAPI (Swagger) JSON description, even if the SwaggerUI part is removed. So in a production setup, you most likely would not add Swagger UI to the deployment.

Starting it up

The project has three entry points:

• CamelApplicationComponent is the OSGi service, which will be managed by the OSGi service component runtime (SCR) when the component is uploaded to Kura.
• TestApplication is a local test application, which is intended to be started from the local IDE for manual testing.
• CamelApplicationComponentTest is the JUnit 4 based test for testing the Camel routes.

All three entry points will have a slightly different creation process for the Camel Context. This is simply due to the fact that different environments (like plain Java, OSGI and JUnit) have different requirements.

The routes configuration, which is the same for all entry points, is located in Routes.

Let’s have a quick look at the OSGi startup:

@Activate
public void start(final BundleContext context) throws Exception {
  this.context = new OsgiDefaultCamelContext(context, SwaggerUi.createRegistry());
  this.context.addRoutes(new Routes(this.state));
  this.context.start();

  final Dictionary<String, Object> properties = new Hashtable<>();
  properties.put("camel.context.id", "camel.example.4");
  this.registration = context.registerService(CamelContext.class, this.context, properties);
}

Once the component is placed inside an OSGi container, the start method will be called and set up the Camel context. This is all pretty straightforward Camel code. As the last step, the Camel context will be registered with the OSGi service layer. Setting the service property camel.context.id in the process. This property is important, as we will, later on, use it to locate the Camel context from the Kura Wires graph by it.

The Java DSL routes

The routes configuration is pretty simple Camel stuff. First, the REST DSL will be used to configure the REST API. For example, the “GET” operation to receive the currently active parameters:

…
  .get()
  .description("Get the current parameters")
  .outType(Parameters.class)
  .to("direct:getParameters")
…

This creates a get operation, which is being redirected to the internal “direct:getParameters” endpoint. Which is a way of forwarding that call to another Camel Route. This way Camel routes can be re-used from different callers.

Like for example the `direct:updateParameters` route, which will be called by all routes which want to update the parameters, no matter if that call originated in the IEC 60870, the REST or the Kura Wires component:

from("direct:updateParameters")
  .routeId("updateParameters")
  .bean(this.state, "updateCurrentParameters")
  .multicast()
  .to("direct:update.wires", "direct:update.iec.p1", "direct:update.iec.p2").end();

The route will forward the new parameters to the method updateCurrentParameters of the State class. This class is a plain Java class, holding the state and filling in null parameters with the current state. The result of this method will be forwarded to the other routes, for updating Kura Wires and the two parameters in the IEC 60870 data layer.

Trying it out

If you have Java and Maven installed, then you can simply compile the package by running:

cd camel/camel-example4
mvn clean package

This will compile, run the unit tests and create the .dp package in the folder target.

You can upload the package directly to your Kura instance. Please note that you do need the dependencies installed in part #1 of the tutorial. In additional you will need to install the following dependencies:

• https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/de/dentrassi/kura/addons/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.iec60870/0.6.1/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.iec60870-0.6.1.dp
• https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/de/dentrassi/kura/addons/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.jetty/0.6.1/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.jetty-0.6.1.dp
• https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/de/dentrassi/kura/addons/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.swagger/0.6.1/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.swagger-0.6.1.dp
• https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/de/dentrassi/kura/addons/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.http/0.6.1/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.http-0.6.1.dp

This will install the support for REST APIs, backed by Jetty. As Kura already contains Jetty, it only makes sense to re-use those existing components.

Once the component is deployed and started, you can navigate your web browser to http://:8090/api. This should bring up the Swagger UI, showing the API of the routes:

Next, you can create the following components in the Kura wires graph:

• Create a new “Camel consumer”, named consumer2
  • Set the ID to camel.example.4
  • Set the endpoint URI to seda:wiresOutput1
• Create a new “Logger”, named logger2
  • Set it to “verbose”
• Connect consumer2 with logger2
• Click on “Apply” to activate the changes

Open the console of Kura and then open the Swagger UI page with the Web browser. Click on ““Try Out” of the “PUT” operation, enter some new values for setpoint1 and/or setpoint2 and click on the blue “Execute” button.

In the console of Kura you should see the following output:

2018-09-17T13:35:49,589 [Camel (camel-10) thread #27 - seda://wiresOutput1] INFO  o.e.k.i.w.l.Logger - Received WireEnvelope from org.eclipse.kura.wire.camel.CamelConsume-1537188764126-1
2018-09-17T13:35:49,589 […] INFO  o.e.k.i.w.l.Logger - Record List content:
2018-09-17T13:35:49,589 […] INFO  o.e.k.i.w.l.Logger -   Record content:
2018-09-17T13:35:49,589 […] INFO  o.e.k.i.w.l.Logger -     P1 : 3.0
2018-09-17T13:35:49,589 […] INFO  o.e.k.i.w.l.Logger -     P2 : 2.0
2018-09-17T13:35:49,589 […] INFO  o.e.k.i.w.l.Logger -

This is the result of the “Logger” component from Kura Wires. Which did receive the new parameter updates from the Camel Context, as they got triggered through the Web UI. At the same time, the IEC 60870 server would update all clients being subscribed to those data items.

Wrapping it up

The last part of this tutorial showed that, if the prep-prepared XML router component of Eclipse Kura, is not enough, then you can drop in your own and powerful replacements. Developing with all the bells and whistles of Apache Camel, and still integrate with Kura Wires if necessary.

Part #1 of the Apache Camel to Kura Wires integration tutorial did focus on pushing data from Kura Wires to Camel and processing it there. But part #1 already mentioned that it is also possible to pull in data from Camel into Kura Wires.

Preparations

For the next step, you again need to install a Camel package, for interfacing with Open Weather Map: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/de/dentrassi/kura/addons/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.weather/0.6.0/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.weather-0.6.0.dp The installation follows the same way as already described in part #1.

In addition to the installation of the package, you will also need to create an account at https://openweathermap.org/ and create an API key. You can select the free tier plan, it is more than enough for our example.

Back to Wires

Next, create a new Camel context, like before, and give it the ID “camel2”. Add the required component weather, the required language groovy and set the following XML router content (be sure to replace <appid> with your API token):

<routes xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">

  <route>

    <from uri="weather:dummy?appid=<YOUR API TOKEN>&amp;lat=48.1351&amp;lon=11.5820"/>
    <to uri="stream:out"/>

    <unmarshal><json library="Gson"></json></unmarshal>
    <transform><simple>${body["main"]["temp"]}</simple></transform>
    <convertBodyTo type="java.lang.Double"/>
    <to uri="stream:out"/>

    <transform><groovy>["TEMP": request.body-273.15]</groovy></transform>
    <to uri="stream:out"/>
    <to uri="seda:output1"/>

  </route>

</routes>

After applying the changes, you can create two new components in the Wire graph:

• Create a new “Camel Consumer”, name it consumer1
  • Set the Camel context ID camel2
  • Set the endpoint URI seda:output1
• Create a new “Logger”, name it logger1
  • Set it to “verbose”
• Connect consumer1 with logger1
• Click on “Apply” to activate the changes

What does it do?

What this Camel context does, is to first start polling information from the Open Weather Map API. It requests with a manually provided GPS location, Munich.

It then parses the JSON, so that we can work with the data. Then it extracts the current temperature from the rather complex Open Weather Map structure. Of course, we could also use a different approach and extract additional or other information.

The extracted value could still be a number, represented internally by a string. So we ask Camel to ensure that the body of the message gets converted to a Double. If the body already is a double, then nothing will be done. But, if necessary, Camel will pull in its type converter system and optionally convert e.g. a string to a double by parsing it.

Now the body contains the raw value, as a Java double. But we still have two issues with that. The first one is, that the value is in degree Kelvin. Living in Germany, I would expect degree Celsius ;-) The second issue is, that Kura Wires requires some kind of key to that value, like a Map structure.

Fortunately, we easily can solve both issues with a short snippet of Groovy: ["TEMP": request.body-273.15]. This will take the message (request) body, convert it to degree Celsius, and using this as a value for the key TEMP in the newly created map.

Checking the result

As soon as you apply the changes, you should see some output on the console, which shows the incoming weather data:

{"coord":{"lon":11.58,"lat":48.14},"weather":[{"id":801,"main":"Clouds","description":"few clouds","icon":"02d"}],"base":"stations","main":{"temp":297.72,"pressure":1021,"humidity":53,"temp_min":295.15,"temp_max":299.15},"visibility":10000,"wind":{"speed":1.5},"clouds":{"all":20},"dt":1537190400,"sys":{"type":1,"id":4914,"message":0.0022,"country":"DE","sunrise":1537160035,"sunset":1537204873},"id":2867714,"name":"Muenchen","cod":200}
297.72
{TEMP=24.57000000000005}

Every change, which should happen every second, shows three lines. First the raw JSON data, directly from the Open Weather Map API. Then the raw temperature in degree Kelvin, parsed by Camel and converted into a Java type already. Followed by the custom Map structure, created by the Groovy script. The beauty here is again, that you don’t need to fiddle around with custom data structures of the Kura Wires system, but can rely on standard data structures likes plain Java maps.

Looking at the Kura log file, which is by default /var/log/kura.log, you should see some output like this:

2018-09-17T13:57:10,117 [Camel (camel-15) thread #31 - seda://output1] INFO  o.e.k.i.w.l.Logger - Received WireEnvelope from org.eclipse.kura.wire.camel.CamelConsume-1537188764126-1
2018-09-17T13:57:10,117 [Camel (camel-15) thread #31 - seda://output1] INFO  o.e.k.i.w.l.Logger - Record List content:
2018-09-17T13:57:10,118 [Camel (camel-15) thread #31 - seda://output1] INFO  o.e.k.i.w.l.Logger -   Record content:
2018-09-17T13:57:10,118 [Camel (camel-15) thread #31 - seda://output1] INFO  o.e.k.i.w.l.Logger -     TEMP : 24.57000000000005
2018-09-17T13:57:10,118 [Camel (camel-15) thread #31 - seda://output1] INFO  o.e.k.i.w.l.Logger -

This shows the same value, as processed by the Camel context but received by Kura Wires.

Wrapping it up

Now, of course, a simple logger component isn’t really useful. But as you might now, Kura has the ability to connect to a GPS receiver. So you could also take the current position as an input to the Open Weather Map request. And instead of using my static GPS coordinates of Munich, you could query for the nearby weather information. So this might allow you to create some amazing IoT applications.

Stay tuned for Part #3, where we will look at a Camel based solution, which can run inside of Kura, as well as outside. Including actual unit tests, ready for continuous delivery.

With the upcoming version of Eclipse Kura 4, we will see some nice new features for the embedded Apache Camel runtime. This tutorial walks you through the Camel integration of Kura wires, which allows you to bridge both technologies, and leverage the power of Apache Camel for your solutions on the IoT gateway.

Kura Wires is a graph-oriented programming model of Eclipse Kura. It allows wiring up different components, like a Modbus client to the internal Kura Cloud Service. It is similar to Node-RED.

Apache Camel is a message-oriented integration platform with a rule-based routing approach. It has a huge eco-system of components, allowing to integrate numerous messaging endpoints, data formats, and scripting languages.

A graphical approach, like Kura Wires may be interesting for a single instance, which is manually administered. But assume that you want to re-deploy the same solution multiple times. In this case you would want to locally develop and test it. Have proper tooling like validation and debugging. And then you want to automatically package it and run a set of unit and integration tests. And only after that you would want to deploy this. This model is supported when you are using Apache Camel. There is a lot of tooling available, tutorials, training, books on how to work with Apache Camel. And you can make use of the over 100 components which Camel itself provides. In addition to that, you have a whole ecosystem around Apache Camel, which can extend this even more. So it is definitely worth a look.

Prerequisites

As a prerequisite, you will need an instance of Kura 4. As this is currently not yet released, you can also use a snapshot build of Kura 3.3, which will later become Kura 4.

If you don’t want to set up a dedicated device just for playing around, you can always use the Kura container image and it e.g. with Docker. There is a short introduction on how to get started with this at the DockerHub repository: https://hub.docker.com/r/ctron/kura/

Starting a new Kura instance is as easy as:

docker run -ti ctron/kura:develop -p 8080:8080

The following tutorial assumes that you have already set up Kura, and started with a fresh instance.

Baby Steps

The first step we take is to create a very simple, empty, Camel Context and hook and directly hook up a Camel endpoint without further configuration.

New Camel Context

As a first step, we create a new XML Router Camel context:

• Open the Kura Web UI
• Click on the “+” button next to the services search box
• Select the org.eclipse.kura.camel.xml.XmlRouterComponent factory
• Enter the name camel1
• Press “Submit”

A new service should appear in the left side navigation area. Sometimes it happens that the service does not show up, but reloading the Web UI will reveal the newly created service.

Now select the service and edit the newly created context. Clear out the “Router XML” and only leave the root element:

<routes xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
</routes>

In the field “Required Camel Components” add the stream component. Click on “Apply” to activate the changes. This will configure the Camel context to have no routes, but wait for the stream component to be present in the OSGi runtime. The stream component is a default component, provided by the Eclipse Kura Camel runtime. The Camel context should be ready immediately and will be registered as an OSGi service for others to consume.

The Wires Graph

The next step is to configure the Kura Wires graph:

• Switch to “Wire Graph” in the navigation pane
• Add a new “Timer” component named timer1
  • Configure the component to fire every second
• Add a new “Camel Producer” named producer1
  • Set the Context ID field of the component to camel1
  • Set the endpoint URI to stream:out
• Connect the nodes timer1 and producer1
• Click on Apply to activate the changes

If you look at the console of the Kura instance, then you should see something like this:

org.eclipse.kura.wire.WireEnvelope@bdc823c
org.eclipse.kura.wire.WireEnvelope@5b1f50f4
org.eclipse.kura.wire.WireEnvelope@50851555
org.eclipse.kura.wire.WireEnvelope@34cce95d

Note: If you are running Kura on an actual device, then the output might be in the file /var/log/kura-console.log.

What is happening is, that the Kura wires timer component will trigger a Wires event every second. That event is passed along to the Camel endpoint stream:out in the Camel context camel1. This isn’t using any Camel routes yet. But this is a basic integration, which allows you to access all available Camel endpoints directly from Kura Wires.

Producer, Consumer, Processor

In addition to the “Producer” component, it is also possible to use the “Consumer”, or the “Processor”. The Consumer takes events from the Camel context and forwards them to the Kura Wires graph. While the “Processor” takes an event from the Wire Graph, processes it using Camel, and passes along the result to Wires again:

For Producer and Consumer, this would be a unidirectional message exchange from a Camel point of view. The Processor component would use an “in”/”out” message exchange, which is more like “request/response”. Of course that only makes sense when you have an endpoint which actually hands back a response, like the HTTP client endpoint.

In the following sections, we will see that in most cases there will be a more complex route set up that the Camel Wire component would interact with, proxied by a seda Camel component. Still, the “in”, “out” flow of the Camel message exchange would be end-to-end between whatever endpoint you have and the Wires graph.

Getting professional

Apache Camel mostly uses the concept of routes. And while accessing an endpoint directly from the Kura Camel component technically works, I wouldn’t recommend it. Mainly due to the fact that you would be missing an abstraction layer, there is no way to inject anything between the Kura Wires component and the final destination at the Camel endpoint. You directly hook up Kura Wires with the endpoint and thus lose all ways that Camel allows you to work with your data.

So as a first step, let’s decouple the Camel endpoint from Kura Wires and provide an API for our Camel Context.

In the camel1 configurations screen, change the “Router XML” to:

<routes xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
    <route>
        <from uri="seda:input1"/>
        <to uri="stream:out"/>
    </route>
</routes>

Then configure the producer1 component in the Wire Graph to use the “Endpoint URI” seda:input1 instead of directly using stream:out.

If everything is right, then you should still see the same output on the Kura console, but now Wires and Camel are decoupled and properly interfaced using an internal event queue, which allows us to use Camel routes for the following steps.

One benefit of this approach also is that you can now take the XML route definitions outside of Kura and test them in your local IDE. There are various IDE extensions for Eclipse, IntelliJ and Visual Studio, which can help to work with Camel XML route definitions. And of course, there are the JBoss Tools as well ;-). So you can easily test the routes outside of a running Kura instance and feed in emulated Kura Wires events using the seda endpoints.

To JSON

This first example already shows a common problem, when working with data, and even so for IoT use cases. The output of org.eclipse.kura.wire.WireEnvelope@3e0cef10 is definitely not what is of much use. But Camel is great a converting data, so let’s make use of that.

As a first step we need to enable the JSON support for Camel:

• Navigate to “Packages”
• Click on “Install/Upgrade”
• Enter the URL: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/de/dentrassi/kura/addons/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.gson/0.6.0/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.gson-0.6.0.dp
• Click on “Submit”

After a while, the package de.dentrassi.kura.addons.gson should appear in the list of installed packages. It may happen that the list doesn’t properly refresh. Clicking on “refresh” or reloading the Web page will help.

Instead of downloading the package directly to the Kura installation you can also download the file to your local machine and then upload it by providing the file in the “Install/Upgrade” dialog box.

As a next step, you need to change the “Router XML” of the Camel context camel1 to the following configuration:

<routes xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
    <route>
        <from uri="seda:input1"/>
        <marshal><json library="Gson"/></marshal>
        <transform><simple>${body}\n</simple></transform>
        <to uri="stream:out"/>
    </route>
</routes>

In the Kura console you will now see that we successfully transformed the internal Kura Wires data format to simple JSON:

{"value":[{"properties":{"TIMER":{}}}],"identification":"org.eclipse.kura.wire.Timer-1536913933101-5","scope":"WIRES"}

This change did intercept the internal Kura wires objects and serialized them into proper JSON structures. The following step simply appends the content with a “newline” character in order to have a more readable output on the command line.

Transforming data

Depending on your IoT use case, transforming data can become rather complex. Camel is good at handling this. Transforming, filtering, splitting, aggregating, … for this tutorial I want to stick to a rather simple example, in order to focus in the integration between Kura and Camel, and less on the powers of Camel itself.

As the next step will use the “Groovy” script language to transform data, we will need to install an additional package using the same way as before: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/de/dentrassi/kura/addons/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.groovy/0.6.0/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.groovy-0.6.0.dp

Then go ahead and modify the “Router XML” to include a transformation step, add the following content before the JSON conversion:

<transform><groovy>
return  ["value": new Random().nextInt(10), "timer": request.body.identification ];
</groovy></transform>

The full XML context should now be:

<routes xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
    <route>
        <from uri="seda:input1"/>
        <transform><groovy>
        return  ["value": new Random().nextInt(10), "timer": request.body.identification ];
        </groovy></transform>
        <marshal><json library="Gson"/></marshal>
        <transform><simple>${body}\n</simple></transform>
        <to uri="stream:out"/>
    </route>
</routes>

After applying the changes, the output on the console should change to something like:

{"value":2,"timer":"org.eclipse.kura.wire.Timer-1536913933101-5"}

As you can see, we now created a new data structure, based on generated content and based on the original Kura Wires event information.

Off to the Eclipse Hono HTTP Adapter

Printing out JSON to the console is nice, but let’s get a bit more professional. Yes, Kura allows you to use its Kura specific MQTT data format. But what we want to send this piece of JSON to some HTTP endpoint, like the Eclipse Hono HTTP protocol adapter?

Camel has a huge variety of endpoints for connecting to various APIs, transport mechanisms and protocols. I doubt you directly would like your IoT gateway to contact Salesforce or Twitter, but using OPC UA, MQTT, HTTP, IEC 60870, might be a reasonable use case for IoT.

As a first step, we need to install Camel HTTP endpoint support: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/de/dentrassi/kura/addons/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.http/0.6.0/de.dentrassi.kura.addons.camel.http-0.6.0.dp

The next step requires an instance of Eclipse Hono, thankfully there is a Hono sandbox server running at hono.eclipse.org.

In the XML Router we need two steps for this. You can add them after the to element, so that we still see the JSON on the command line:

<setHeader headerName=”Content-Type”><constant>application/json</constant></setHeader>
<to uri="https4://hono.eclipse.org:28080/telemetry?authenticationPreemptive=true&amp;authUsername=sensor1@DEFAULT_TENANT&amp;authPassword=hono-secret"/>

The first step sets the content type to application/json, which is passed along by Hono to the AMQP network.

Yes, it really is http4://, this is not a typo but the Camel endpoint using Apache HttpClient 4.

You may need to register the device with Hono before actually publishing data to the instance. Also, it is necessary that a consumer is attached, which receives the data. Hono rejects devices publish data if no consumer is attached. Also see: https://www.eclipse.org/hono/getting-started/#publishing-data

If you are using a custom deployment of Hono using the OpenShift S2I approach, then the to URL would look more like:

<to uri="https4://hono-adapter-http-vertx-sec-hono.my.openshift.cluster/telemetry?authenticationPreemptive=true&amp;authUsername=sensor1@DEFAULT_TENANT&amp;authPassword=hono-secret"/>

Wrapping it up

What we have seen so far is that, with a few lines of XML, it is possible to interface with Kura Wires, and start processing data that was originally not supported by Kura, sending to a target that also isn’t supported by Kura. On for that we only used a few lines of XML.

In addition to that, you can test and develop everything in a local, confined space. Without having to worry too much about actually running a Kura instance.

In Part #2, we will have a look at ways to get data from Camel back into Kura Wires. And in Part #3 of this tutorial, we will continue with this approach and develop a Camel based solution, which can run inside of Kura, as well as outside, including actual unit tests.