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From Camel 2.6 onwards your custom Processor should use the Spring JMX annotations (for Camel 2.9 onwards see the tip box below). Just add @ManagedResource to the class, and the other annotations for the attributes and operations. Then Camel will automatically use those when the processor is being registered in JMX.
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The same applies when using beans in your routes.
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Notice that from Camel 2.9 onwards its encouraged to use the @ManagedResource, @ManagedAttribute and @ManagedOperation from the org.apache.camel.api.management package. This allows your custom code to not depend on Spring JARs anymore.
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