Camel-Stomp Component Serialization Issue

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I have an issue with the camel-stomp component. When I transport String
messages over the stomp component and receive the String back from the Stomp
broker it is prepended with "ascii: ". Shouldn't Strings be received in the
same state they were sent?

Here is a hand-written (and likely full of errors) approximation of the code
we use:

package com.SomeCompany.SomeProject;
public class SomeClass {
    @Produce(uri="seda:msgChannel")
    private ProducerTemplate messageChannel;

    public void someMethod() {
        String msg = "hi there"
        messageChannel.sendBody(msg)
    }

    public void handleMessage(String message) {
        System.out.println(message)
        // output: "ascii: hi there"
    }
}

<beans>
    <camelContext>
        <route>
            <from uri="seda:msgChannel?concurrentConsumers=1" />
            <to uri="stomp:queue:stompMessage" />
        </route>
        <route>
            <from uri="stomp:queue:stompMessage" />
            <bean ref="someBean" method="handleMessage"/>
        </route>
        </camelContext>

        <bean id="stomp"
class="org.apache.camel.component.stomp.StompComponent">    
            <property name="brokerURL" value="tcp://localhost:61613"/>
            <property name="passcode" value="guest" />
            <property name="login" value="guest" />
        </bean>

        <bean id="someBean" class="com.SomeCompany.SomeProject.SomeClass" />
</beans>

Digging a little deeper, when I modify the above to send Serializable
objects, I receive back org.fusesource.hawtbuf.Buffer objects instead of an
instance of the original class. For example if I sent an Animal object, I
get back a Buffer object whose toString method returns the toString of that
animal with "ascii: " prepended:

public class Animal implements Serializable {
    public String toString() {
        return "moo";
    }
}

public class someOtherClass {
    public void handleMessage(Buffer buffer) {
        System.out.println(buffer)
        // output: "ascii: moo"
    }
}

If I send an object through the stomp-component, shouldn't I receive the
same object back on the other end?

Is there something I'm missing? I'm new to Camel so I'm likely doing
something wrong.

I'm using:
camel-stomp 2.12.2
Spring Framework 4.0 Release
RabbitMQ 3.2.2 with Stomp plugin as the Stomp Broker
JDK 1.7




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