All fyi - after some testing I went ahead with the approach suggested below
http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/How-to-make-your-camel-routes-highly-available-when-only-one-may-be-active-at-a-time-td4984581.html#a4988271 http://www.liquid-reality.de/display/liquid/2011/11/11/Hot+Standby+failover+for+Apache+Camel+routes Only catch seems to be a connections exclusively used for holding the lock. Which should be ok. regards, Deepak. -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Camel-in-Master-Slave-ActiveMQ-config-tp5734804p5735078.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.