Thanks to both of you Grzegorz as well as Claus! This problem was solved and I got jasypt to work as well.
To help people who might come along and read this post because they have the same problem am providing some sample code .. attached to this post are my pom file, camel config and db.properties (Useless without the password which is being set in env but will give an idea) pom.xml <http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/file/n5778022/pom.xml> db.properties <http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/file/n5778022/db.properties> camel-context.xml <http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/file/n5778022/camel-context.xml> Please note this 'app' is just for poc and does nothing useful , it reads the same record over and over. -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Usage-of-properties-in-datasource-definition-Please-help-tp5777954p5778022.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
