Hi, i've got an error when trying to create my mina endpoint with spring dsl :
<bean id="myCodec" class="com.example.MyProtocolCodecFactory"> </bean> <bean id="myMinaFactory" class="org.apache.camel.component.mina.MinaComponent"/> <bean id="myMinaEndpoint" factory-bean="myMinaFactory" factory-method="createEndpoint"> <constructor-arg index="0" ref="myMinaConfig"/> </bean> <bean id="myMinaConfig" class="org.apache.camel.component.mina.MinaConfiguration"> <property name="protocol" value="tcp" /> <property name="host" value="localhost" /> <property name="port" value="7777" /> <property name="sync" value="true" /> <property name="codec" value="myCodec" /> </bean> I got the following error : org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'myMinaEndpoint' defined in class path resource [spring.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Factory method [public org.apache.camel.Endpoint org.apache.camel.component.mina.MinaComponent.createEndpoint(org.apache.camel.component.mina.MinaConfiguration) throws java.lang.Exception] threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(ConstructorResolver.java:444) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:903) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:817) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:440) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:429) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:728) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:380) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:139) at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:83) at com.example.main(App.java:15) Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Factory method [public org.apache.camel.Endpoint org.apache.camel.component.mina.MinaComponent.createEndpoint(org.apache.camel.component.mina.MinaConfiguration) throws java.lang.Exception] threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:127) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(ConstructorResolver.java:435) ... 17 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.camel.util.CamelContextHelper.lookup(CamelContextHelper.java:152) at org.apache.camel.util.CamelContextHelper.mandatoryLookup(CamelContextHelper.java:170) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultComponent.mandatoryLookup(DefaultComponent.java:315) at org.apache.camel.component.mina.MinaComponent.getCodecFactory(MinaComponent.java:360) at org.apache.camel.component.mina.MinaComponent.configureCodecFactory(MinaComponent.java:213) at org.apache.camel.component.mina.MinaComponent.createSocketEndpoint(MinaComponent.java:175) at org.apache.camel.component.mina.MinaComponent.createEndpoint(MinaComponent.java:109) at org.apache.camel.component.mina.MinaComponent.createEndpoint(MinaComponent.java:101) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:115) ... 18 more if i remove the property "codec", it works. I believe it's because the "myCodec" bean is not already created. It is reference as a spring value, not as a bean reference. But i tried to add depends-on but it doesn't work. <bean depends-on="myCodec" id="myMinaConfig" ... Regards. NicolaS.