I am very sorry for not understanding this properly. Please accept my apologies if am wasting your time.
I am totally missing something here. Below is the change I had made (Hopeing that this is what you meant by saying Mutate the old exchange). I am using StringBuilder so that the process os faster and also helps not creating many String objects. 1. when I use String.class all works fine until am running out of heapspace. 2. If I use StringBuilder, I get the following nullPointer. 3. Looks like there is no converter type to conver from String to StringBuilder. 2012-04-30 10:34:38,087 INFO [Camel (camel-1) thread #2 - seda://streamQueue] ipdr.GlobalAggrStratergy - is oldExchange null: Exchange[null] AND is newExchange null: Exchange[null] 2012-04-30 10:34:38,087 INFO [Camel (camel-1) thread #2 - seda://streamQueue] ipdr.GlobalAggrStratergy - Aggregate old orders: null 2012-04-30 10:34:38,087 INFO [Camel (camel-1) thread #2 - seda://streamQueue] ipdr.GlobalAggrStratergy - Aggregate new order: null 2012-04-30 10:34:38,087 ERROR [Camel (camel-1) thread #2 - seda://streamQueue] ipdr.GlobalAggrStratergy - Error aggregating java.lang.NullPointerException at com.vzw.fp.ipdr.GlobalAggrStratergy.aggregate(GlobalAggrStratergy.java:26) @Override public Exchange aggregate(Exchange oldExchange, Exchange newExchange) { try{ log.info(" is oldExchange null: "+oldExchange+" AND is newExchange null: "+newExchange); if (oldExchange == null) { return newExchange; } else { log.info("Aggregate old orders: " + oldExchange.getIn().getBody(StringBuilder.class)); log.info("Aggregate new order: " + newExchange.getIn().getBody(StringBuilder.class)); oldExchange.getIn().setBody( oldExchange.getIn().getBody(StringBuilder.class). append(newExchange.getIn().getBody(StringBuilder.class)+"\n")); counter++; } }catch(Exception ex){ log.error("Error aggregating", ex); } oldExchange.setProperty(Exchange.CONTENT_LENGTH, counter); if(counter >= 50000) counter = 0; oldExchange.getIn().setHeader(Exchange.FILE_NAME_ONLY, newExchange.getProperty(Exchange.FILE_NAME_ONLY)); return oldExchange; } -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Java-heap-space-issue-with-Aggregation-tp5670608p5676110.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.