## Shutting down a routing context

### Overview

The developer tools enable you to shut down a routing context from Fuse JMX Navigator. Shutting down a routing context gracefully stops all of the routes in the context and releases all of the resources used by the routes. Once shut down, a routing context cannot be resumed.

If you want to stop the routes so that they can be restarted, suspend the context. See Suspending a routing context.

### Procedure

To shut down a routing context:

1. In the Fuse JMX Navigator tree, expand the project's Camel Contexts node, and select the routing context you want to shut down.

2. Right-click it to open the context menu, and then select Close Camel Context.

### Related topics

Suspending a routing context