I figured out - it was version mismatch with earlier version of spring from other dependency. I suppressed it with maven plug-in
<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/lib/spring-2.5.6.jar</packagingExcludes> <webXml>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml> <warName>myProject</warName> <warSourceDirectory>src/main/webapp</warSourceDirectory> </configuration> </plugin> -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Camel-and-Spring-in-2-3-tp489072p5738802.html Sent from the Camel Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.