Thank you all for the feeback. Here is the result of executing
1. MVN INSTALL and 2. mvn dependency:copy-dependencies 1. mvn install: it created a jar file which contains the following: i. log4j.properties ii. META-INF folder which contains MANIFEST.MF and a package. The package contains pom.properties and pom.xml ii. Another folder contains the class files I don't see the dependencies in the jar file. 2. mvn dependency:copy-dependencies: it created a folder "dependency" which contains all the camel jar files. please let me know why mvn install did copy all the dependencies in JAR file and instead it contains POM file. -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/running-a-CAMEL-exmple-tp4881222p4882849.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.