Got it! The problem with the TypeConverter by me was just a side effect of the following fix:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-3974 So that the webservice-reply was simply not propagated into the exchange's out, The following diff says it all: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/file/n4593321/diff.jpeg diff.jpeg The solution was to simply change my route from ...to("spring-ws:http://...")... to ...inOut("spring-ws:http://...").... Frankly, to me this is API-breaking however I couldn't find any thing regarding this change on http://camel.apache.org/spring-web-services.html Anyway, am happy to use 2.8.0 now, most importantly because of the improvement below which worked like a 'speedy gonzales' for me: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/2011/05/faster-unit-testing-apache-camel-source.html Regards, Babak -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-Apache-Camel-2-8-0-tp4584312p4593321.html Sent from the Camel Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.