Hi Claus, hi Ashwin, thanks for your fast replies. I'll give the Quartz-triggered heartbeat-bean a try and will report back. Solution with ServiceMix sounds also good, but these camel-apps have to run in standalone-mode with little overhead. I don't know hazlcast (yet) but will have a look at it.
BTW maybe for later releases, a standard-camel-component called "camel-heartbeat" would be usefull, no? :-) best, Christoph
