Thank you for the prompt response guys. I think I have at least three interesting leads, and I am pretty sure at least one will work
1) Use sendEmptyMessageWhenIdle in the route and pause the route when an empty message is detected 2) Extend the DefaultPollingConsumerPollStrategy and override the commit method 3) Extend the CronScheduledRoutePolicy and override the onExchangeDone method. -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Periodic-route-activation-use-case-tp5718059p5718105.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.