Success! For any future readers stumbling upon this. Tried other JDK and it works as a charm.
Didn't get it working using *java version "1.7.0_101" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.6) (7u101-2.6.6-2~deb8u1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.95-b01, mixed mode) * But it works when running under *java version "1.6.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pap3260sr11-20120806_01(SR11)) IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 AIX ppc-32 jvmap3260sr11-20120801_118201 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled) * -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Camel-XML-DSL-route-custom-bean-for-testing-Weblogic-Availiability-helper-hangs-on-startup-tp5785015p5785056.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.