Chapter 56. Jsch

The camel-jsch component supports the SCP protocol using the Client API of the Jsch project. Jsch is already used in camel by the FTP component for the sftp: protocol.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-jsch</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-jsch</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

scp://host[:port]/destination[?options]

scp://host[:port]/destination[?options]

You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?option=value&option=value&...

The file name can be specified either in the <path> part of the URI or as a "CamelFileName" header on the message (Exchange.FILE_NAME if used in code).

Currently camel-jsch only supports a Producer (i.e. copy files to another host). The reason is that the scp protocol does not offer the possibility to scan (list) the content of a directory. As such a polling consumer cannot watch for changes and trigger events on changes. It is possible however to use camel-jsch in sink mode for one time copy from a remote host using a ConsumerTemplate (see Polling Consumer(s) for more details). If continuous monitoring of a directory on a remote host and secure transfer is required, you can consider using the sftp protocol.