Thank you for your help it works now. If someone is interested in the solution, here it is:
1) I updated to Camel version 2.10-Snapshot (to use the consumer.bridgeErrorHandler=true option) 2) implemented my own PollingConsumerPollStrategy which forwards Exceptions to the Camel route: public class EmptyMessagePollingStrategy implements org.apache.camel.spi.PollingConsumerPollStrategy { public boolean begin(Consumer arg0, Endpoint arg1) { return true; } public void commit(Consumer arg0, Endpoint arg1, int arg2) { } /** * If an Exception occurs forward it to the Camel route */ public boolean rollback(Consumer consumer, Endpoint endpoint, int arg2, Exception e) throws Exception { throw e; } } 3) registered the strategy at the registry SimpleRegistry registry = new SimpleRegistry(); registry.put("myPollStrategy", new EmptyMessagePollingStrategy()); context = new DefaultCamelContext(registry); 4) set the strategy in the route with pollStrategy=#myPollStrategy 5) the route code (EmptyMessageGenerator generates the emptyMessage and the callbackProcessor relies on the empty message) onException(org.apache.camel.component.file.GenericFileOperationFailedException.class) .process(new EmptyMessageGenerator()).process(callbackProcessor) .handled(true); from(from_uri).routeId(routeId).autoStartup(false).process(callbackProcessor) .to(to_uri); -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Changing-from-file-consumer-to-ftp-consumer-tp5715125p5715224.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.