Imagine this scenario: you're responsible for integrating your company’s system with an old system from one of your clients. Every day, just when you think you've achieved it, the client’s system crashes and you have no idea why. You are so disappointed that you don’t even want to get a drink with your friends anymore, you just want to stay home thinking of ways to solve the problem. Well, that was my story - until I found Apache Camel and Apache Wicket.