The best way to see what is happening in a route is to see what happens to a message at each stop along a route. Fuse IDE provides a mechanism for dropping messages into a route and tracing the message's path through the route.
To trace messages through a route:
Create one or more test messages as described in Creating test messages for route tracing.
Activate tracing for the route's routing context as described in Activating route tracing.
Drag one of the test messages onto the route's starting point.
Select the route being traced from the JMX Explorer tree.
The Messages View is populated with a list of messages representing the message at each stage in the traced route.
Open Diagram View.
A graphical representation of the selected route will be displayed.
Select one of the messages listed in the Messages View.
In Diagram View the route stage corresponding to the selected entry is highlighted. In Properties, the full message is displayed.
You can repeat this process as needed.