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In Camel 1.5 the sync option has changed its default value from false to true, as we felt it was confusing for end-users when they used Mina to call remote servers and Camel wouldn't wait for the response.
Using custom codec
See the Mina documentation how to write your own codec. To use your custom codec with camel-mina you should register your codec in the Registry such as the Spring XML file. Then use the codec option to set your codec with its bean id. See HL7 for examples.
Samples
In this sample we let Camel expose a service that listen for TCP connections on port 6200. We use the textline codec. In out route we create the mina in the from to create the consumer that listen on port 6200:
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