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public class Customer {
    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;
    private String street;
    private String zip;

    public Customer() {}

    public Customer(String firstName, String lastName, String zip, String street) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
        this.lastName = lastName;
        this.zip = zip;
        this.street = street;
    }

    public String getFirstName() {
        return firstName;
    }

    public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
    }

    ... getters and setters for each field

public class Customer {
    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;
    private Address address;

    public Customer() {}

    public Customer(String firstName, String lastName, Address address) {
        this.firstName = firstName;
        this.lastName = lastName;
        this.address = address;
    }
    ....


public class Address {
    private String zipCode;
    private String streetName;

    public Address() {}

    public Address(String zipCode, String streetName) {
        this.zipCode = zipCode;
        this.streetName = streetName;
    }

<mappings xmlns="http://dozer.sourceforge.net" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://dozer.sourceforge.net  http://dozer.sourceforge.net/schema/beanmapping.xsd">
  <mapping>
    <class-a>org.apache.camel.converter.dozer.service.Customer</class-a>
    <class-b>org.apache.camel.converter.dozer.model.Customer</class-b>
    <field>
      <a>street</a>
      <b>address.streetName</b>
    </field>
    <field>
      <a>zip</a>
      <b>address.zipCode</b>
    </field>
  </mapping>
</mappings>

DozerBeanMapper mapper = new DozerBeanMapper(Arrays.asList(new String[]{"mapping.xml"}));
new DozerTypeConverterLoader(camelContext, mapper);

<!-- the registry will be scanned and 'mapper' below will be found and installed -->
<bean id="dozerConverterLoader" class="org.apache.camel.converter.dozer.DozerTypeConverterLoader" />
  
<bean id="mapper" class="org.dozer.DozerBeanMapper">
  <property name="mappingFiles">
    <list>
      <value>mapping.xml</value>
    </list>
  </property>
</bean>

<!-- the registry will be scanned and 'mapper' below will be found and installed -->
<bean id="dozerConverterLoader" class="org.apache.camel.converter.dozer.DozerTypeConverterLoader">
  <argument index="0" ref="myCamel"/>
  <argument index="1" ref="mapper"/>
</bean>
  
<bean id="mapper" class="org.apache.camel.converter.dozer.DozerBeanMapperConfiguration">
  <property name="mappingFiles">
    <list>
      <value>mapping.xml</value>
    </list>
  </property>
</bean>

 
<camelContext id="myCamel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/blueprint">
  ...
</camelContext>

// given the following route
from("direct:legacy-service-in").bean(new CustomerProcessor());

// and a processor

public class CustomerProcessor {

    public Customer processCustomer(org.apache.camel.converter.dozer.model.Customer customer) {
       ...
    }
}

// service objects can be sent to the processor and automagically converted by Camel & Dozer
template.sendBody("direct:legacy-service-in",new org.apache.camel.converter.dozer.service.Customer("Bob", "Roberts", "12345", "1 Main st."));