Surprisingly, to make it work, I had to force a In&Out pattern on the To uri !
I guess (not checked in the Camel source) that the Exchange *copy* that was sent to the direct-vm endpoint, inherits by default from the same ExchangePattern as the original...which (in my case) was a InOnly one (>JMS consumer) ?? -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Body-lost-with-intra-context-calls-using-direct-vm-component-tp5798327p5798337.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.