Hi I took a stab at CAMEL-3747 (we have one or two other JIRA tickets about this as well) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-3747
So it has been a bit overdue to provide maven archetypes out of the box for end users to getting started with OSGi projects with Camel. There are 2 new archetypes camel-archetype-blueprint camel-archetype-spring-dm They use the same example. But they could use a bit of love. For example the bean they invoke. The idea is to expose the bean in the OSGi service registry and then lookup and use that bean from the Camel route. And we should enhance the example to use property placeholders. So you can get an idea how that may work as well. Also if anyone grook and are an expert on Apache Felix Maven Bundle Plugin. Then please take a look at the pom.xml to help improved the instructions for the MANIFEST.MF generation. If you want to try them out from trunk. There is an instruction here: http://camel.apache.org/camel-maven-archetypes.html Showing that nice and long maven cmd you have to type. If you build the project from the source. Then you dont need that snapshot repo parameter as it can find it in your local repo. -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- FuseSource Email: cib...@fusesource.com Web: http://fusesource.com CamelOne 2011: http://fusesource.com/camelone2011/ Twitter: davsclaus Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/ Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen/