camel-netty psuedo proxy?

[Matt Narrell]

I have a route:

        from("netty:tcp://somewhere:1234?...")
          .to("bean:myBean?method=callOut")

Where the callOut method does several things, followed by a producerTemplate 
call to another netty endpoint:

        producerTemplate.sendBody("netty:tcp://somewhereElse:6789...", 
ExchangePattern.InOut, body);

I'm unable to proxy "directly" from/to the netty endpoints, and need to pass 
through this bean.  However, I receive the following exception:

        Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: await*() in I/O thread 
causes a dead lock or sudden performance drop. Use addListener()     instead or 
call await*() from a different thread.

Is this route arrangement possible?  All comm is synchronous request/reply.

-matt