It's used to create the WS client proxy for you in the CXF internal. I think I can do some enhancement on the camel-cxf to support you setup the properties which could be use to setup the authentication policy without using spring. Here is the JIRA[1] for it, you can setup your own configurer to setup the ClientFactoryBean as you want.
Before that you still need to follow the CXF http client configuration which I showed you. [1]https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-5853 -- Willem Jiang Red Hat, Inc. FuseSource is now part of Red Hat Web: http://www.fusesource.com | http://www.redhat.com Blog: http://willemjiang.blogspot.com (http://willemjiang.blogspot.com/) (English) http://jnn.iteye.com (http://jnn.javaeye.com/) (Chinese) Twitter: willemjiang Weibo: 姜宁willem On Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Philroc wrote: > Hi again, > > what exactly is the "client factory bean"? > > Philroc > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Connecting-to-MS-Exchanger-Service-using-CXF-tp5723701p5723709.html > Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com > (http://Nabble.com).