Thanks Claus. I have the following lines being shown in the console.
[ main] DefaultCamelContext INFO Route: route1 started and consuming from: Endpoint[file://.?fileName=my.xml] [ main] DefaultCamelContext INFO Total 1 routes, of which 1 is started. [ main] DefaultCamelContext INFO Apache Camel 2.10.0 (CamelContext: camel-1) started in 0.641 seconds [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.015 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.016 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.015 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.016 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.016 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.015 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . [(camel-1) thread #1 - file://.] FileConsumer DEBUG Took 0.000 seconds to poll: . I can see that the route is started as well. But why wouldn't the output file be written be written? Also why does it poll those many times as above? Here is how my route looks like: from("file:.?fileName=my.xml").to("file:.?fileName=my1.xml") Regards, Jothi