Claus: Thanks for the reply.
As I have mentioned in my question. I have Java Client/Server program which opens the socket conneciont using the same port i.e 8000. I am able to run my java program and pass messages back and forth. When the program is being run I applied the following command netstat -o and I see the following: TCP t00631529:8000 localhost:1851 ESTABLISHED 5516 Which means the 8000 is being used. Afte stopping the prgoram, I ran the same command agian, but didn't see the above line which means port is not being used. But when I run my camel application, I get the error. Please tell me what else I should check. I am exhausted. Thank you -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/CAMEL-is-throwing-error-tp5014337p5014423.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.