Thanks Christian for the links. This will be my 6th patch now however! :) The link for the patch is here : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-5643
And the relevant Camel Development post: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Patch-CAMEL-5643-Allow-users-to-store-body-and-arbitrary-headers-as-text-within-a-datasource-td5719810.html I'd appreciate any feedback you wish to give Alan -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Change-Sql-Component-BLOB-datatype-to-XML-for-Aggregator-serialization-tp5718845p5719811.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.