Hi, If you look at http://camel.apache.org/component.html you will find: "A Component is essentially a factory of Endpoint instances." Essentially xslt is a Component, whereas you generate an Endpoint in the to-statement of your route.
Best regards Stephan -----Original Message----- From: Joe San [mailto:codeintheo...@gmail.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 16. August 2012 13:11 To: users@camel.apache.org Subject: Component vs EndPoint As a follow up on the Chapter 3 from Camel in Action: from("file://rider/inbox") .to("xslt://camelinaction/transform.xsl") .to("activemq:queue:transformed") Can I refer the xslt as an EndPoint? or it is better referred as a Component? Regards, Jothi