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The reason your spring bean is not called is because you route to a class, like this; "bean (Catcher.class);" That tells camel to create an instance of your class, have a look at beanRef, which allows you to refer to a bean already defined in spring. Taariq On 30 Sep 2011, at 11:18 PM, thelonesquirrely <thelonesquirr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello - > > I need to make a postal service (point-to-point (direct) and publish (topic) > essentially). I was thinking that I could leverage most of the work that > camel has but I am a little confused. > > Mainly I am having a problem dealing with the topic. I have an endpoint > defined as such: > > <bean id="activemq" > class="org.apache.activemq.camel.component.ActiveMQComponent"> > <property name="brokerURL" value="vm://localhost" /> > </bean> > > and I have a route defined as such (in Java DSL) : > > @Override > public void configure () throws Exception { > from ("activemq:topic:catcher").bean (Catcher.class); > } > > simple right? The catcher class just has on method: > > public class Catcher implements MessageListener { > @Override > public void onMessage (Message jmsMsg) { > System.out.println (toString () + "-Recieved Message: " + jmsMsg); > } > } > > and something publishes a simple string to the topic: > // get the camel context using the CamelContextAware interface > pTemplate.sendBody ("activemq:topic:catcher", new TestMessage (msg)); > > Then I have 3 catchers in the Spring context (Did i mention I was using > Spring?). None of these three are notified actually. It is a 4th that > presumably gets created that is notified. > > How would I arrange it so that the 3 get notified? Would I need to have them > each register their own route? I want to try and encapsulate the routing > information in the PostalService - identify/describe/control the routes > there. I am open to suggestions! I am really just starting to look into this > and camel is...intimidating. Thanks! > > -- > View this message in context: > http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Creating-Postal-Service-using-Camel-tp4858438p4858438.html > Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.