Spring TypeConverter fails on Camel RouteBuilder subclass -

in attempt install component on karaf following error: caused by: org.apache.camel.camelexception: cannot find routes routebuilder reference: routebuilderref[logparserroutebean]

i've narrowed down conversion error in abstractbeanfactory using simpletypeconverter returned gettypeconverter().

given performancelogroute extends org.apache.camel.builder.routebuilder, how can convertion fail??

suggestions, , ideas solution appreciated.

update

package no.osl.cdms.profile.routes;  import no.osl.cdms.profile.api.timemeasurement; import no.osl.cdms.profile.factories.entityfactory; import no.osl.cdms.profile.log.timemeasuremententity; import no.osl.cdms.profile.parser.loglineregexparser; import org.apache.camel.builder.routebuilder;  import java.util.map;  public class performancelogroute extends routebuilder {      public static final string performance_log_route_id = "performancelogroute";     private static final string log_directory = "c:/data";     private static final string log_file = "performance.log";     private static final int delay = 0;      private loglineregexparser loglineregexparser = new loglineregexparser();     private entityfactory entityfactory = entityfactory.getinstance();      private static final string log_file_endpoint = "stream:file?    filename="+log_directory +"/"+log_file+"&scanstream=true&scanstreamdelay=" + delay;     private static final string database_endpoint = "jpa:";       @override     public void configure() throws exception{         fromf(log_file_endpoint, log_directory, log_file, delay)             .convertbodyto(string.class)                  // converts input string             .choice().when(body().isgreaterthan(""))      // ignores empty lines             .bean(loglineregexparser, "parse")            // parses log entry string map             .bean(entityfactory, "createtimemeasurement") // parses log entry database format             .split(body())             .choice().when(body().isnotnull())             .tof(database_endpoint, body().getclass().tostring())             .routeid(performance_log_route_id);     }      public string tostring() {         return performance_log_route_id;     } } 

the xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/xmlschema-instance"     xmlns:camel="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring"     xsi:schemalocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd        http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">      <bean id="logparserroutebean" class="no.osl.cdms.profile.routes.performancelogroute" /> <camelcontext id="cdms-core-camel-context" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">     <routebuilder ref="logparserroutebean" /> </camelcontext>  </beans> 

this found @ moment. remember identical caused error, i'll double check in morning.