Hi I did reproduce your NPE with exactly the same Stacktrace.
I assume you make use of xs:import inside BroadcastMonitor.xsd, so make sure you do *correctly* specify the filesystem path to the imported xsd using the schemaLocation attribute. As an example take a look at [1] and see how "health.xsd" has been referenced: <xs:import schemaLocation="health.xsd" namespace="org.health.check.person"/> As "health.xsd" resides under the same directory. Take a look at [2] as well and let us know how it's going. Nevertheless we should properly put a NotNull-Check for this before trying to resolve the URI [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/camel/trunk/camel-core/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/component/validator/person.xsd [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-4877 And following is the stacktrace I did get while reproducing your use case using one of the Camel unit-tests: org.apache.camel.FailedToCreateRouteException: Failed to create route route1 at: >>> DoTry[[To[validator:person.xsd], To[mock:valid], DoCatch[ [class org.apache.camel.ValidationException] -> [To[mock:invalid]]], DoFinally[[To[mock:finally]]]]] <<< in route: Route[[From[direct:start]] -> [DoTry[[To[validator:person.xs... because of Failed to resolve endpoint: validator://person.xsd due to: null at org.apache.camel.model.RouteDefinition.addRoutes(RouteDefinition.java:873) at org.apache.camel.model.RouteDefinition.addRoutes(RouteDefinition.java:171) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.startRoute(DefaultCamelContext.java:720) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.startRouteDefinitions(DefaultCamelContext.java:1743) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.doStartCamel(DefaultCamelContext.java:1536) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.doStart(DefaultCamelContext.java:1431) at org.apache.camel.support.ServiceSupport.start(ServiceSupport.java:60) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.start(DefaultCamelContext.java:1399) at org.apache.camel.ContextTestSupport.startCamelContext(ContextTestSupport.java:170) at org.apache.camel.ContextTestSupport.setUp(ContextTestSupport.java:114) at org.apache.camel.component.validator.ValidatorIncludeRouteTest.setUp(ValidatorIncludeRouteTest.java:130) at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:132) at org.apache.camel.TestSupport.runBare(TestSupport.java:59) at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:110) at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:128) at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:113) at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:124) at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:232) at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:227) at org.junit.internal.runners.JUnit38ClassRunner.run(JUnit38ClassRunner.java:83) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197) Caused by: org.apache.camel.ResolveEndpointFailedException: Failed to resolve endpoint: validator://person.xsd due to: null at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.getEndpoint(DefaultCamelContext.java:466) at org.apache.camel.util.CamelContextHelper.getMandatoryEndpoint(CamelContextHelper.java:48) at org.apache.camel.model.RouteDefinition.resolveEndpoint(RouteDefinition.java:186) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultRouteContext.resolveEndpoint(DefaultRouteContext.java:106) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultRouteContext.resolveEndpoint(DefaultRouteContext.java:112) at org.apache.camel.model.SendDefinition.resolveEndpoint(SendDefinition.java:61) at org.apache.camel.model.SendDefinition.createProcessor(SendDefinition.java:55) at org.apache.camel.model.ProcessorDefinition.createOutputsProcessor(ProcessorDefinition.java:382) at org.apache.camel.model.TryDefinition.createProcessor(TryDefinition.java:75) at org.apache.camel.model.ProcessorDefinition.makeProcessor(ProcessorDefinition.java:441) at org.apache.camel.model.ProcessorDefinition.addRoutes(ProcessorDefinition.java:179) at org.apache.camel.model.RouteDefinition.addRoutes(RouteDefinition.java:870) ... 25 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.camel.util.ResourceHelper.resolveMandatoryResourceAsInputStream(ResourceHelper.java:65) at org.apache.camel.component.validator.DefaultLSResourceResolver$DefaultLSInput.getByteStream(DefaultLSResourceResolver.java:82) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.DOMEntityResolverWrapper.resolveEntity(DOMEntityResolverWrapper.java:124) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.resolveEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:1100) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.resolveDocument(XMLSchemaLoader.java:595) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.resolveSchema(XSDHandler.java:1671) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.constructTrees(XSDHandler.java:909) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.traversers.XSDHandler.parseSchema(XSDHandler.java:569) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadSchema(XMLSchemaLoader.java:552) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadGrammar(XMLSchemaLoader.java:519) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xs.XMLSchemaLoader.loadGrammar(XMLSchemaLoader.java:485) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation.XMLSchemaFactory.newSchema(XMLSchemaFactory.java:211) at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newSchema(SchemaFactory.java:594) at org.apache.camel.processor.validation.ValidatingProcessor.createSchema(ValidatingProcessor.java:233) at org.apache.camel.processor.validation.ValidatingProcessor.loadSchema(ValidatingProcessor.java:105) at org.apache.camel.component.validator.ValidatorComponent.createEndpoint(ValidatorComponent.java:54) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultComponent.createEndpoint(DefaultComponent.java:91) at org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.getEndpoint(DefaultCamelContext.java:448) ... 36 more Babak -- View this message in 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