Mina route on servicemix - Error executing command: java.lang.NullPointerException - apache-camel

Question

I've created a very simple camel route using the mina component. This route actually uses a custom Codec and is packaged as osgi bundle. Whenever I deploy it to servicemix (apache-servicemix-4.4.1-fuse-03-06) the bundle is not getting the Active state but Installed. And of course when I try to start it I'm getting a "Error executing command: java.lang.NullPointerException" from the console, but nothing in the logs...
Can somebody help me make this work I can't figure out what's happening... Is this a packaging issue? I guess it has something to do with my codec loading, but I'm stuck here now.
Here is my XML route
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans>
<bean id="myCodec" class="test.net.mina.codec.MyMinaCodec" />
<camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
<route>
<from uri="mina:tcp://localhost:9000?sync=true&codec=#myCodec" />
<to uri="log:IncomingMsg" />
</route>
</camelContext>
</beans>
Here is my codec factory
public class MyMinaCodec implements
ProtocolCodecFactory {
public ProtocolDecoder getDecoder(IoSession session) throws Exception {
return new MyMinaDecoder();
}
public ProtocolEncoder getEncoder(IoSession session) throws Exception {
return new ProtocolEncoder() {
public void encode(IoSession arg0, Object arg1, ProtocolEncoderOutput arg2) throws Exception {
}
public void dispose(IoSession arg0) throws Exception {
}
};
}
}
My codec implementation:
public class MyMinaDecoder extends CumulativeProtocolDecoder {
public static final int MSG_HEADER_SIZE = 14;
#Override
protected boolean doDecode(IoSession session, IoBuffer in, ProtocolDecoderOutput out) throws Exception {
// try to read the message header
if (in.remaining() >= MSG_HEADER_SIZE) {
out.write(readsUnsignedBytesToString(in, MSG_HEADER_SIZE));
return true;
} else {
// not enough data
return false;
}
}
private String readsUnsignedBytesToString(IoBuffer in, int length) {
char[] unsignedChars = new char[length];
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
unsignedChars[i] = (char) in.getUnsigned();
}
return new String(unsignedChars);
}
}
And my pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.apache.servicemix.features</groupId>
<artifactId>features</artifactId>
<version>4.4.1-fuse-03-06</version>
</parent>
<groupId>test</groupId>
<artifactId>mina-test</artifactId>
<packaging>bundle</packaging>
<name>My MINA Test</name>
<version>0.1.6</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-core</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-spring</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-mina</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<instructions>
<Bundle-SymbolicName>${project.artifactId}</Bundle-SymbolicName>
<Bundle-Description>${project.description}</Bundle-Description>
<Import-Package>*</Import-Package>
<Require-Bundle>org.apache.servicemix.bundles.mina</Require-Bundle>
<Export-Package>test.net.*</Export-Package>
<DynamicImport-Package></DynamicImport-Package>
</instructions>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Thanks for your help.
Francois

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