While writing some tests for an Apache Camel project, I just spent rather longer than I'd have liked trying to work out how to configure a connection bean for Mongo without using Spring.

Since I hide my embarrassments in public I thought I'd best share with anyone else with brain freeze.

public class SomeTest extends CamelTestSupport {

    @Override
    protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilder() throws Exception {
        return new RouteBuilder() {
            @Override
            public void configure() throws Exception {
                from("direct:findAll")
                    .to("mongodb:myConnectionBean?database=flights&collection=tickets&operation=findAll")
                    .to("mock:resultFindAll");

            }
        };
    }

    @Override
    protected JndiRegistry createRegistry() throws Exception {
        JndiRegistry reg = new JndiRegistry(createJndiContext());
        Mongo connectionBean = new Mongo("localhost", 27017);
        reg.bind("myConnectionBean", connectionBean);
        return reg;
    }

    @Test
    public void testSomething() throws InterruptedException {
        // test something here
    }

}

Don't forget you need the camel-mongodb artifact in your pom.xml file. Good luck fellow travellers.