Thanks for the replies. After studying the code, I solved it independently like Willem Jiang suggests:
public class MyCamelContext extends GuiceCamelContext { @Inject public MyCamelContext(Injector injector) { super(injector); } @PostConstruct public void start() { setTracing(true); // etc. super.start(); } } But then I immediately got stuck with a new problem. I wanted to configure my application from command line arguments and that seems impossible to do cleanly with the Camel Guice Main. In the end, I found an ugly hack which is however quite localized: public class MyMain extends Main { // this is the ugly hack - a static variable that can be accessed from a Guice Module // Guice doesn't run until main.run(args) is called so it's safe public static MainArgs mainArgs; public MyMain(String args[]) throws InterruptedException { mainArgs = new MainArgs(); mainArgs.setArgs(args); addOption(new ParameterOption("c", "conf", "Path to the application.conf configuration file.", "filePath") { @Override protected void doProcess(String arg, String parameter, LinkedList<String> remainingArgs) { mainArgs.setConfFile(parameter); mainArgs.loadAndValidateConf(); } }); } public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { Main main = new MyMain(args); main.enableHangupSupport(); main.run(args); } } Then I have MainArgsModule which provides MainArgs via normal dependency injections - this way I can restrict the ugly static access to this one class while the rest of the app can use dependency injection as usual. public class MainArgsModule extends AbstractModule { @Override protected void configure() { } @Provides public MainArgs createMainArgs() { return MainFlowGuice.mainArgs; } } jndi.properties: java.naming.factory.initial = org.apache.camel.guice.jndi.GuiceInitialContextFactory org.guiceyfruit.modules = com.myapp.ApplicationModule com.myapp.MainArgsModule I guess that really not many people use Guice with Camel when there are such basic issues using it? I am wondering how much more friction there will be and whether it wouldn't make more sense to simply use Spring as most do (even though Spring is not my first choice otherwise). Later I could of course write my own Main for Guice, etc. but I was hoping to get started rather quickly. Jakub On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:54 AM, dermoritz <tantea...@hotmail.com> wrote: > i just created an ticket with a suggestion: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-8555 > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Setting-up-CamelContext-with-Guice-tp5764709p5764818.html > Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >