diff --git a/camel-k-loader-xml/pom.xml b/camel-k-loader-xml/pom.xml
index 71fa5a698..29b938a47 100644
--- a/camel-k-loader-xml/pom.xml
+++ b/camel-k-loader-xml/pom.xml
@@ -46,23 +46,7 @@
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
-            <artifactId>camel-xml-jaxb</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
-            <version>${jaxb-api.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jaxb-core</artifactId>
-            <version>${jaxb-core.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId>
-            <version>${jaxb-api.version}</version>
+            <artifactId>camel-xml-io</artifactId>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/camel-k-loader-xml/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/k/loader/xml/XmlSourceLoader.java b/camel-k-loader-xml/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/k/loader/xml/XmlSourceLoader.java
index 60aee2fd9..a2d3f8f6b 100644
--- a/camel-k-loader-xml/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/k/loader/xml/XmlSourceLoader.java
+++ b/camel-k-loader-xml/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/k/loader/xml/XmlSourceLoader.java
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException;
-
 import org.apache.camel.ExtendedCamelContext;
 import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
 import org.apache.camel.k.Runtime;
@@ -31,6 +29,7 @@
 import org.apache.camel.model.RoutesDefinition;
 import org.apache.camel.model.rest.RestsDefinition;
 import org.apache.camel.spi.XMLRoutesDefinitionLoader;
+import org.apache.camel.xml.io.XmlPullParserException;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ public void configure() throws Exception {
                         }
                     } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
                         // ignore
-                    } catch (UnmarshalException e) {
+                    } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
                         LOGGER.debug("Unable to load RoutesDefinition: {}", e.getMessage());
                     }
                 }
@@ -76,7 +75,7 @@ public void configure() throws Exception {
                         }
                     } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
                         // ignore
-                    } catch (UnmarshalException e) {
+                    } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
                         LOGGER.debug("Unable to load RestsDefinition: {}", e.getMessage());
                     }
                 }
diff --git a/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/deployment/pom.xml b/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/deployment/pom.xml
index 9f7481b4a..fb2e27847 100644
--- a/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/deployment/pom.xml
+++ b/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/deployment/pom.xml
@@ -48,10 +48,6 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.camel.k</groupId>
             <artifactId>camel-k-quarkus-core-deployment</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.camel.quarkus</groupId>
-            <artifactId>camel-quarkus-core-xml-deployment</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/deployment/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/k/loader/xml/quarkus/deployment/DeploymentProcessor.java b/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/deployment/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/k/loader/xml/quarkus/deployment/DeploymentProcessor.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6d5a339b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/deployment/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/k/loader/xml/quarkus/deployment/DeploymentProcessor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/*
+ * 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.camel.k.loader.xml.quarkus.deployment;
+
+import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildStep;
+import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.ExecutionTime;
+import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.Record;
+import org.apache.camel.k.loader.xml.quarkus.XmlLoaderRecorder;
+import org.apache.camel.quarkus.core.deployment.CamelRoutesLoaderBuildItems;
+
+public class DeploymentProcessor {
+    @BuildStep
+    @Record(value = ExecutionTime.STATIC_INIT, optional = true)
+    CamelRoutesLoaderBuildItems.Xml xmlLoader(XmlLoaderRecorder recorder) {
+        return new CamelRoutesLoaderBuildItems.Xml(recorder.newXMLIORoutesDefinitionLoader());
+    }
+
+    @BuildStep
+    @Record(value = ExecutionTime.STATIC_INIT)
+    void initXmlReifiers(XmlLoaderRecorder recorder) {
+        recorder.initXmlReifiers();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/runtime/pom.xml b/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/runtime/pom.xml
index 137aecdb3..a5db024e8 100644
--- a/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/runtime/pom.xml
+++ b/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/runtime/pom.xml
@@ -32,10 +32,6 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.camel.k</groupId>
             <artifactId>camel-k-quarkus-core</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.camel.quarkus</groupId>
-            <artifactId>camel-quarkus-core-xml</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.camel.k</groupId>
             <artifactId>camel-k-loader-xml</artifactId>
diff --git a/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/k/loader/xml/quarkus/XmlLoaderRecorder.java b/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/k/loader/xml/quarkus/XmlLoaderRecorder.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e7b141add
--- /dev/null
+++ b/camel-k-quarkus/camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml/runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/k/loader/xml/quarkus/XmlLoaderRecorder.java
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/*
+ * 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.camel.k.loader.xml.quarkus;
+
+import io.quarkus.runtime.RuntimeValue;
+import io.quarkus.runtime.annotations.Recorder;
+import org.apache.camel.model.ValidateDefinition;
+import org.apache.camel.model.validator.PredicateValidatorDefinition;
+import org.apache.camel.reifier.ProcessorReifier;
+import org.apache.camel.reifier.ValidateReifier;
+import org.apache.camel.reifier.validator.PredicateValidatorReifier;
+import org.apache.camel.reifier.validator.ValidatorReifier;
+import org.apache.camel.spi.XMLRoutesDefinitionLoader;
+import org.apache.camel.xml.in.ModelParserXMLRoutesDefinitionLoader;
+
+@Recorder
+public class XmlLoaderRecorder {
+    public RuntimeValue<XMLRoutesDefinitionLoader> newXMLIORoutesDefinitionLoader() {
+        return new RuntimeValue<>(new ModelParserXMLRoutesDefinitionLoader());
+    }
+
+    public void initXmlReifiers() {
+        ProcessorReifier.registerReifier(ValidateDefinition.class, ValidateReifier::new);
+        ValidatorReifier.registerReifier(PredicateValidatorDefinition.class, PredicateValidatorReifier::new);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/data/application.properties b/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/data/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..48757ed28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/data/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+## ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+## 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.
+## ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#
+# camel - main
+#
+camel.main.name = camel-q
+camel.main.stream-caching-enabled = true
+camel.main.stream-caching-spool-directory = ${java.io.tmpdir}/camel-q
+
+#
+# Integration
+#
+period = 1s
+message = test-app
diff --git a/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/data/routes.xml b/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/data/routes.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c4f08c486
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/data/routes.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+
+-->
+<routes xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+        xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring"
+        xsi:schemaLocation="
+            http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring
+            http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd">
+
+    <route id="xml-route">
+        <from uri="timer:from-xml?period={{period}}"/>
+        <log message="${properties:message}"/>
+    </route>
+
+</routes>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/pom.xml b/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7ddaeaefe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+
+    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.
+
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.apache.camel.k</groupId>
+        <artifactId>camel-k-runtime-examples</artifactId>
+        <version>1.1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <artifactId>camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml</artifactId>
+
+    <properties>
+        <noDeps>true</noDeps>
+        <quarkus.camel.main.routes-discovery.enabled>false</quarkus.camel.main.routes-discovery.enabled>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencyManagement>
+        <dependencies>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.camel.quarkus</groupId>
+                <artifactId>camel-quarkus-bom</artifactId>
+                <version>${camel-quarkus.version}</version>
+                <type>pom</type>
+                <scope>import</scope>
+            </dependency>
+        </dependencies>
+    </dependencyManagement>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.camel.k</groupId>
+            <artifactId>camel-k-runtime-quarkus</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.camel.k</groupId>
+            <artifactId>camel-k-quarkus-loader-xml</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.camel.quarkus</groupId>
+            <artifactId>camel-quarkus-log</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.camel.quarkus</groupId>
+            <artifactId>camel-quarkus-timer</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
+                <artifactId>quarkus-bootstrap-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${quarkus.version}</version>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
+                <artifactId>quarkus-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${quarkus.version}</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>build</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>build</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${exec-maven-plugin.version}</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>exec</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+                <configuration>
+                    <executable>java</executable>
+                    <workingDirectory>${project.basedir}</workingDirectory>
+                    <arguments>
+                        <argument>-jar</argument>
+                        <argument>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-runner.jar</argument>
+                    </arguments>
+                    <environmentVariables>
+                        <CAMEL_K_CONF>${project.basedir}/data/application.properties</CAMEL_K_CONF>
+                        <CAMEL_K_ROUTES>file:${project.basedir}/data/routes.xml</CAMEL_K_ROUTES>
+                    </environmentVariables>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>native</id>
+            <activation>
+                <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
+                <property>
+                    <name>native</name>
+                </property>
+            </activation>
+            <build>
+                <plugins>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>quarkus-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <version>${quarkus.version}</version>
+                        <executions>
+                            <execution>
+                                <goals>
+                                    <goal>native-image</goal>
+                                </goals>
+                                <configuration>
+                                    <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
+                                    <enableHttpUrlHandler>true</enableHttpUrlHandler>
+                                    <enableJni>true</enableJni>
+                                    <disableReports>true</disableReports>
+                                </configuration>
+                            </execution>
+                        </executions>
+                    </plugin>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <version>${exec-maven-plugin.version}</version>
+                        <executions>
+                            <execution>
+                                <goals>
+                                    <goal>exec</goal>
+                                </goals>
+                            </execution>
+                        </executions>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <executable>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-runner</executable>
+                            <workingDirectory>${project.basedir}</workingDirectory>
+                            <environmentVariables>
+                                <CAMEL_K_CONF>${project.basedir}/data/application.properties</CAMEL_K_CONF>
+                                <CAMEL_K_ROUTES>file:${project.basedir}/data/routes.xml</CAMEL_K_ROUTES>
+                            </environmentVariables>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </plugin>
+                </plugins>
+            </build>
+        </profile>
+    </profiles>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/src/main/resources/application.properties b/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/src/main/resources/application.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..88c3528b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+## ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+## 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.
+## ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# quarkus - log
+#
+quarkus.log.file.enable = false
+quarkus.log.console.enable = true
+
+quarkus.log.level = INFO
+quarkus.log.category."org.apache.camel".level = INFO
diff --git a/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-yaml/pom.xml b/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-yaml/pom.xml
index 9f2ca1afe..26a6e3ef5 100644
--- a/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-yaml/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-yaml/pom.xml
@@ -67,6 +67,22 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.camel.quarkus</groupId>
             <artifactId>camel-quarkus-timer</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+
+        <!--
+            This dependency is needed only to make the native compilation succeed
+            as quarkus-netty declares some Netty's HTTP2 codec classes to be init
+            at runtime but those classes are not in the classpath as none of the
+            dependencies requires them, see:
+
+                https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/7576
+
+            TODO: remove once this issue is solved on quarkus side
+        -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
+            <artifactId>quarkus-vertx-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${quarkus.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/examples/pom.xml b/examples/pom.xml
index 5eab6e6b3..61fcdbbea 100644
--- a/examples/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/pom.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
         <module>camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-knative</module>
         <module>camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-groovy</module>
         <module>camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-java</module>
+        <module>camel-k-runtime-example-quarkus-xml</module>
     </modules>
 
     <build>