diff --git a/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/pom.xml b/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/pom.xml
index b94de2f..9ff9355 100644
--- a/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/pom.xml
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
             <artifactId>camel-reactive-executor-vertx</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
+            <artifactId>camel-threadpoolfactory-vertx</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
 
         <!-- logging -->
         <dependency>
diff --git a/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/readme.adoc b/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/readme.adoc
index 03d30e7..f5ebcbf 100644
--- a/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/readme.adoc
+++ b/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/readme.adoc
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 You can run this example using
 
-    mvn camel:run   
+    mvn camel:run
 
 === More information
 
diff --git a/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/MyApplication.java b/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/MyApplication.java
index 496b37d..1c4d27c 100644
--- a/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/MyApplication.java
+++ b/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/MyApplication.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.camel.example;
 
+import io.vertx.core.Vertx;
 import org.apache.camel.main.Main;
 
 /**
@@ -23,16 +24,25 @@
  */
 public final class MyApplication {
 
+    private static Vertx vertx;
+
     private MyApplication() {
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        vertx = Vertx.vertx();
+
         // use Camels Main class
         Main main = new Main();
+        // register existing vertx which should be used by Camel
+        main.bind("vertx", vertx);
         // and add the routes (you can specify multiple classes)
         main.configure().addRoutesBuilder(MyRouteBuilder.class);
         // now keep the application running until the JVM is terminated (ctrl + c or sigterm)
         main.run(args);
+
+        // stop vertx
+        vertx.close();
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/MyRouteBuilder.java b/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/MyRouteBuilder.java
index 37cbe20..91acfeb 100644
--- a/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/MyRouteBuilder.java
+++ b/examples/camel-example-reactive-executor-vertx/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/example/MyRouteBuilder.java
@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@
 
     @Override
     public void configure() throws Exception {
-        from("timer:foo?period=2000")
-            .setBody().constant("Hello World")
-            .delay(simple("${random(0,1000)}"))
-            .log("${body}");
+        from("timer:foo?period=5s")
+            .setBody().constant("H,e,l,l,o, ,W,o,r,l,d,!,!,!, , ")
+            .split(body().tokenize(",")).parallelProcessing()
+                .log("${body}")
+            .end();
     }
 }