= From EIP
Starting point for a Camel route that starts a route with a given endpoint. The endpoint can be from one of the many Camel link:https://github.com/apache/camel/tree/master/components[Components]. The component creates Camel exchanges from their respective sources and puts them into the route.

=== Options

// eip options: START
The From EIP supports 2 options which are listed below:

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| Name | Description | Default | Type
| *uri* | *Required* Sets the URI of the endpoint to use |  | String
| *ref* | *Deprecated* Sets the name of the endpoint within the registry (such as the Spring ApplicationContext or JNDI) to use |  | String
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// eip options: END

=== Samples

Start a route with the File endpoint. Each file in the directory creates an exchange that is put into the camel route.

A camel route is started using from inside the configure method of the class *RouteBuilder*

[source,java]
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from("file:c:/in")
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And examples in Spring XML Schema:

The route is defined inside a CamelContext.

[source,xml]
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<route>
  <from uri="file:c:/in" />
</route>
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