Thanks ... I need to invoke and ftp transfer as part of a flow of processing. Here is the flow
1) jetty server gets hit and the url contains status=SUCCEEDED 2) ssh gets invoked to run a shell script that moves processed files to a given directory -- call it "fooDirectory" 3) ftp gets invoked to move the file called "foo" in "fooDirectory" to the local machine. All works well except (3) for these reasons a) The directory "fooDirectory" will not exist until (2) runs b) The from("ftp:...).to("file:...) in the 3rd step is polling and gets invoked when there is no "fooDirectory" since the dir is created in step (2) and thus throws an error everytime it runs when the "fooDirectory" doesn't exist. (I've set a long consumer.delay=60000 to work around this a bit, but it's ugly.) So what I want to do is have the from("ftp:...").to("file:...") only get invoked when step (2) is done. To do this, I have step (2) end with a to("direct:goGetTheFile"). Then, step (3) is basically from("direct:goGetTheFile") .from("ftp:...") .to("file:...) This works. But the from("ftp:...") is considered a distinct route, so gets invoked and starts polling as soon as the camelContext is started. Thus it throws a "File operation failed: 550 Failed to change directory" until the directory exists -- i.e., until step (2) runs. I hope this is clear and explains why my question is "Can you configure ftp to check ONLY when invoked via a direct?" -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Basic-from-fp-to-file-route-Need-clarification-1M-Thanks-tp4950632p5746799.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.