How does Camel work with ActiveMQ?

You can use Camel to do smart routing and implement the Enterprise Integration Patterns inside:

So Camel can route messages to and from Mail, File, FTP, JPA, XMPP other JMS providers and any of the other Camel Components as well as implementating all of the Enterprise Integration Patterns such as Content Based Router or Message Translator.

For more details see ActiveMQ EIP.