Hello I'm currently experiencing a problem initializing the TypeConverters in Camel in a Spring WebApp.
As soon as the first exchange is created and the type converters are loaded (or type converters are loaded explicitly with camleContext.getTypeConverterRegistry() ) then I get the following exception: org.apache.camel.RuntimeCamelException: java.lang.ClassCastException: Not instanceof org.apache.camel.TypeConverter value: org.apache.camel.converter.jaxb.FallbackTypeConverter@35f3198f: java.lang.ClassCastException: Not instanceof org.apache.camel.TypeConverter value: org.apache.camel.converter.jaxb.FallbackTypeConverter@35f3198f at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultFactoryFinder.newInstance(DefaultFactoryFinder.java:109) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultFactoryFinder.newInstance(DefaultFactoryFinder.java:99) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultFactoryFinder.newInstances(DefaultFactoryFinder.java:65) at org.apache.camel.impl.converter.BaseTypeConverterRegistry.loadFallbackTypeConverters(BaseTypeConverterRegistry.java:542) at org.apache.camel.impl.converter.BaseTypeConverterRegistry.loadTypeConverters(BaseTypeConverterRegistry.java:535) at org.apache.camel.impl.converter.DefaultTypeConverter.doStart(DefaultTypeConverter.java:47) at org.apache.camel.support.ServiceSupport.start(ServiceSupport.java:61) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.startService(DefaultCamelContext.java:1888) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.doAddService(DefaultCamelContext.java:979) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.addService(DefaultCamelContext.java:940) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.getTypeConverter(DefaultCamelContext.java:1148) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.getTypeConverterRegistry(DefaultCamelContext.java:1165) However, org.apache.camel.converter.jaxb.FallbackTypeConverter implements TypeConverter so how can this be the case? I'm not doing anything with custom type converters. I have found this on http://camel.apache.org/type-converter.html: --- Exposed the TypeConverterRegistry from CamelContext so end users more easily will be able to add type converters at runtime. This is also usable in situations where the default discovering of type converters fails on platforms with classloading issues. To access the registry, you get it from the CamelContext CamelContext context = ... context.getTypeConverterRegistry() --- but there is no indication of exactly how this could be used if there are class loading issues, and also simply calling getTypeConverterRegistry() triggers the problem, so I can't see how this would be of any use. I initially thought it may be caused by multiple versions of camel being included in the deployment, but I've checked and only one version of camel is used in the deployment war. Also the version of camel-core and camel-spring are matching. I'm currently using spring 3.2.1 and camel version 2.12.1, but I've also tried 2.12.4 and 2.13.2 with the same result. It occurs consistently on my local machine where I use the maven-jetty plugin (6.1.26) under cygwyn, however when deployed to a Tomcat server (v5.5.20 running on CentOS 5.1), the problem is only intermittent. Any pointers to what could be the problem would be much appreciated thanks in advance Jason -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/java-lang-ClassCastException-Not-instanceof-org-apache-camel-TypeConverter-value-org-apache-camel-cor-tp5755390.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.