JAXB 2.1 and Jdk 6 problem

Jaxb is part of the jdk since jdk version 6. The earliest versions of the jdk 6 (update 1 till 3) have jaxb 2.0 included. The later versions of jdk 6 make use of jaxb 2.1.
Our pearlchain application makes use of camel which on its turn depends on jaxb version 2.1.  In order to be [...]

transactional inbound Camel endpoint

We created our own Camel component for interfacing internal and external services. Interfacing messages are stored in the database. Our inbound endpoint gets a message from the database, changes its status from ‘new’ to ‘finished’ and provides the message to the next processor in the defined Camel route. When something goes wrong during the processing [...]

Apache Camel Type Converters and Spring

Camel allows you to define Type Converters by putting the annotation @Converter at class and converter-method level. You need to define a file META-INF/services/org/apache/camel/TypeConverter, which contains a comma separated list of packages Camel has to scan for Converter classes.
All fine as long as your Converter doesn’t need any dependencies injected. The Camel manual ‘extensively’ describes [...]