There is a simple demo showing the usage of this component: 1) Under the shell just type: mvn exec:java 2) Point your browser to http://localhost:8080 then under the shell console start type something followed by , you'll see what you are typing into the browser. This simple demo is under: src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/cometd/CometdProducerConsumerInteractiveTest.java