diff --git a/activemq-core/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/camel/component/ActiveMQMessageConverter.java b/activemq-core/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/camel/component/ActiveMQMessageConverter.java
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-/**
- *
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.activemq.camel.component;
-
-import org.apache.activemq.command.ActiveMQMessage;
-import org.apache.activemq.command.*;
-import org.apache.camel.Converter;
-import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
-import org.apache.camel.component.jms.JmsBinding;
-
-import javax.jms.MessageNotWriteableException;
-import javax.jms.JMSException;
-import java.io.Serializable;
-
-/**
- * @version $Revision$
- */
-@Converter
-public class ActiveMQMessageConverter {
-    private JmsBinding binding = new JmsBinding();
-
-    /**
-     * Converts the inbound message exchange to an ActiveMQ JMS message
-     *
-     * @return the ActiveMQ message
-     */
-    @Converter
-    public ActiveMQMessage toMessage(Exchange exchange) throws JMSException {
-        ActiveMQMessage message = createActiveMQMessage(exchange);
-        getBinding().appendJmsProperties(message, exchange);
-        return message;
-    }
-
-    private static ActiveMQMessage createActiveMQMessage(Exchange exchange) throws JMSException {
-        Object body = exchange.getIn().getBody();
-        if (body instanceof String) {
-            ActiveMQTextMessage answer = new ActiveMQTextMessage();
-            answer.setText((String) body);
-            return answer;
-        } else if (body instanceof Serializable) {
-            ActiveMQObjectMessage answer = new ActiveMQObjectMessage();
-            answer.setObject((Serializable) body);
-            return answer;
-        } else {
-            return new ActiveMQMessage();
-        }
-
-    }
-
-    // Properties
-    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    public JmsBinding getBinding() {
-        return binding;
-    }
-
-    public void setBinding(JmsBinding binding) {
-        this.binding = binding;
-    }
-}
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