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A recipient list, shown in Figure 7.3, is a type of router that sends each incoming message to multiple different destinations. In addition, a recipient list typically requires that the list of recipients be calculated at run time.
The simplest kind of recipient list is where the list of destinations is fixed and known
in advance, and the exchange pattern is InOnly. In this case, you can
hardwire the list of destinations into the to()
Java DSL command.
The following example shows how to route an InOnly exchange from a
consumer endpoint, queue:a
, to a fixed list of destinations:
from("seda:a").to("seda:b", "seda:c", "seda:d");
The following example shows how to configure the same route in XML:
<camelContext id="buildStaticRecipientList" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring"> <route> <from uri="seda:a"/> <to uri="seda:b"/> <to uri="seda:c"/> <to uri="seda:d"/> </route> </camelContext>
In most cases, when you use the recipient list pattern, the list of recipients should be
calculated at runtime. To do this use the recipientList()
processor, which
takes a list of destinations as its sole argument. Because Fuse Mediation Router applies a type converter
to the list argument, it should be possible to use most standard Java list types (for
example, a collection, a list, or an array). For more details about type converters, see
Built-In Type Converters in
Programmer's Guide.
The recipients receive a copy of the same exchange instance and Fuse Mediation Router executes them sequentially.
The following example shows how to extract the list of destinations from a message
header called recipientListHeader
, where the header value is a comma-separated
list of endpoint URIs:
In some cases, if the header value is a list type, you might be able to use it directly
as the argument to recipientList()
. For example:
However, this example is entirely dependent on how the underlying component parses this particular header. If the component parses the header as a simple string, this example will not work. The header must be parsed into some type of Java list.
The following example shows how to configure the preceding route in XML, where the header value is a comma-separated list of endpoint URIs:
<camelContext id="buildDynamicRecipientList" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring"> <route> <from uri="seda:a"/> <recipientList delimiter=","> recipientListHeader </recipientList> </route> </camelContext>
Available as of Camel 2.2
The Recipient List supports
, which is similar to the corresponding feature in
Splitter. Use the parallel processing feature to
send the exchange to multiple recipients concurrently—for example:
In Spring XML, the parallel processing feature is implemented as an attribute on the
tag—for example:
<route> <from uri="direct:a"/> <recipientList parallelProcessing="true"> myHeader </recipientList> </route>
Available as of Camel 2.2
The Recipient List supports the
feature, which you can use to stop sending to any
further recipients, if any recipient fails.
And in Spring XML its an attribute on the recipient list tag.
In Spring XML, the stop on exception feature is implemented as an attribute on the
tag—for example:
<route> <from uri="direct:a"/> <recipientList stopOnException="true"> myHeader </recipientList> </route>
Note | |
You can combine |
Available as of Camel 2.3
The Recipient List supports the
option, which enables the recipient list to skip
invalid endpoints (Routing Slip also supports
this option). For example:
And in Spring XML, you can enable this option by setting the
attribute on the recipientList
tag, as
<route> <from uri="direct:a"/> <recipientList ignoreInvalidEndpoints="true"> myHeader </recipientList> </route>
Consider the case where myHeader
contains the two endpoints,
. The first endpoint is valid and works. The second
is invalid and, therefore, ignored. Fuse Mediation Router logs at INFO
level whenever an
invalid endpoint is encountered.
Available as of Camel 2.2
You can use a custom AggregationStrategy
with the Recipient List, which is useful for aggregating
replies from the recipients in the list. By default, Fuse Mediation Router uses the
aggregation strategy, which keeps just the
last received reply. For a more sophisticated aggregation strategy, you can define your own
implementation of the AggregationStrategy
interface—see Aggregator EIP for details. For example, to apply the
custom aggregation strategy, MyOwnAggregationStrategy
, to the reply messages,
you can define a Java DSL route as follows:
from("direct:a") .recipientList(header("myHeader")).aggregationStrategy(new MyOwnAggregationStrategy()) .to("direct:b");
In Spring XML, you can specify the custom aggregation strategy as an attribute on the
tag, as follows:
<route> <from uri="direct:a"/> <recipientList strategyRef="myStrategy"> myHeader </recipientList> <to uri="direct:b"/> </route> <bean id="myStrategy" class="com.mycompany.MyOwnAggregationStrategy"/>
Available as of Camel 2.2
This is only needed when you use parallelProcessing
. By default Camel
uses a thread pool with 10 threads. Notice this is subject to change when we overhaul thread
pool management and configuration later (hopefully in Camel 2.2).
You configure this just as you would with the custom aggregation strategy.
You can use a Bean in Component Reference to provide the recipients, for example:
from("activemq:queue:test").recipientList().method(MessageRouter.class, "routeTo");
Where the MessageRouter
bean is defined as follows:
public class MessageRouter { public String routeTo() { String queueName = "activemq:queue:test2"; return queueName; } }
You can make a bean behave as a recipient list by adding the
annotation to a methods that returns a list of
recipients. For example:
public class MessageRouter { @RecipientList public String routeTo() { String queueList = "activemq:queue:test1,activemq:queue:test2"; return queueList; } }
In this case, do not include the recipientList
command in the route. Define the route as follows:
from("activemq:queue:test").bean(MessageRouter.class, "routeTo");
Available as of Camel 2.5
If you use parallelProcessing
, you can configure a total
value in milliseconds. Camel will then process the messages in
parallel until the timeout is hit. This allows you to continue processing if one message is
In the example below, the recipientlist
header has the value,
, so that the message is sent to three recipients.
We have a timeout of 250 milliseconds, which means only the last two messages can be
completed within the timeframe. The aggregation therefore yields the string result,
from("direct:start") .recipientList(header("recipients"), ",") .aggregationStrategy(new AggregationStrategy() { public Exchange aggregate(Exchange oldExchange, Exchange newExchange) { if (oldExchange == null) { return newExchange; } String body = oldExchange.getIn().getBody(String.class); oldExchange.getIn().setBody(body + newExchange.getIn().getBody(String.class)); return oldExchange; } }) .parallelProcessing().timeout(250) // use end to indicate end of recipientList clause .end() .to("mock:result"); from("direct:a").delay(500).to("mock:A").setBody(constant("A")); from("direct:b").to("mock:B").setBody(constant("B")); from("direct:c").to("mock:C").setBody(constant("C"));
Timeout in other EIPs | |
This |
By default if a timeout occurs the AggregationStrategy
is not
invoked. However you can implement a specialized version
// Java public interface TimeoutAwareAggregationStrategy extends AggregationStrategy { /** * A timeout occurred * * @param oldExchange the oldest exchange (is <tt>null</tt> on first aggregation as we only have the new exchange) * @param index the index * @param total the total * @param timeout the timeout value in millis */ void timeout(Exchange oldExchange, int index, int total, long timeout);
This allows you to deal with the timeout in the AggregationStrategy
if you really need to.
Timeout is total | |
The timeout is total, which means that after X time, Camel will aggregate the messages
which has completed within the timeframe. The remainders will be cancelled. Camel will
also only invoke the |
Before recipientList
sends a message to one of the recipient endpoints, it
creates a message replica, which is a shallow copy of the original message. If you want to
perform some custom processing on each message replica before the replica is sent to its
endpoint, you can invoke the onPrepare
DSL command in the
clause. The onPrepare
command inserts a custom
processor just after the message has been shallow-copied and just
before the message is dispatched to its endpoint. For example, in the
following route, the CustomProc
processor is invoked on the message replica for
each recipient endpoint:
from("direct:start") .recipientList().onPrepare(new CustomProc());
A common use case for the onPrepare
DSL command is to perform a deep copy
of some or all elements of a message. This allows each message replica to be modified
independently of the others. For example, the following CustomProc
class performs a deep copy of the message body, where the message body is presumed to be of
, and the deep copy is performed by
the method, BodyType
// Java import org.apache.camel.*; ... public class CustomProc implements Processor { public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception {BodyType
body = exchange.getIn().getBody(BodyType
.class); // Make a _deep_ copy of of the body objectBodyType
clone =BodyType
.deepCopy(); exchange.getIn().setBody(clone); // Headers and attachments have already been // shallow-copied. If you need deep copies, // add some more code here. } }
The recipientList
DSL command supports the following options:
Name | Default Value | Description |
Delimiter used if the Expression returned multiple endpoints. |
Refers to an AggregationStrategy to be used to assemble the replies from the recipients, into a single outgoing message from the Recipient List. By default Camel will use the last reply as the outgoing message. | |
Camel 2.2: If enables then sending messages to the recipients occurs concurrently. Note the caller thread will still wait until all messages has been fully processed, before it continues. Its only the sending and processing the replies from the recipients which happens concurrently. |
Camel 2.2: Refers to a custom Thread Pool to be used for parallel processing. Notice if you set this option, then parallel processing is automatic implied, and you do not have to enable that option as well. | |
Camel 2.2: Whether or not to stop continue processing immediately when an exception occurred. If disable, then Camel will send the message to all recipients regardless if one of them failed. You can deal with exceptions in the AggregationStrategy class where you have full control how to handle that. |
Camel 2.3: If an endpoint uri could not be resolved, should it be ignored. Otherwise Camel will thrown an exception stating the endpoint uri is not valid. |
Camel 2.5: If enabled then Camel will process replies out-of-order, eg in the order they come back. If disabled, Camel will process replies in the same order as the Expression specified. |
Camel 2.5: Sets a total timeout specified in millis. If the Recipient List hasn't been able to send and process all replies within the given timeframe, then the timeout triggers and the Recipient List breaks out and continues. Notice if you provide a TimeoutAwareAggregationStrategy then the timeout method is invoked before breaking out. |
Camel 2.8: Refers to a custom Processor to prepare the copy of the Exchange each recipient will receive. This allows you to do any custom logic, such as deep-cloning the message payload if that's needed etc. | |
Camel 2.8: Whether the unit of work should be shared. See the same option on Splitter for more details. |


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Caesars Entertainment Corp. is importing more top talent from Las Vegas to the Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati. Pete Ghione will oversee eight casino kitchens at the 400,000 square foot complex at Broadway Commons. A graduate of the New England Culinary Institute, he did stints at Rio and Caesars Palace. Read the story here.
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Tax laws often define and support your small business investment and growth strategies. So, it's important to take stock now, and assess how your business can comply with, and benefit from the changes that apply to the 2010 tax year. Here is a summary of the major changes in federal income tax law that can impact your business in 2010.
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I am planning to open a small call center business after going through the new tax law i think its better to open up a small office in my home.Till the number of staffs is less i think it would be a better idea to take advantage of this new tax reform as we can eaasily save few bucks.Once my business grows then i can rent a small office but till then i will take this opputunity to save few tax.
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Pentagon City Mall Zales robbed by four men
A jewelry store inside the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City was robbed Monday morning.
It happened shortly after the Zales jewelry store opened for the day. Arlington County police say four men wearing hoodies went into the store between 11:15 and 11:45 a.m., smashed several jewelry cases with hammers and got away with nearly $130,000 worth of jewelry.
Shopper Hinton Combs said, "It's wild, like, someone just ran up inside Zales and stole 27 rings. That's wild, dog."
Officers arrived within minutes of the heist, but by then, the thieves were probably long gone.
"They chose that location probably because of the easy access to the exterior of the building, where a car was waiting and they could flee the scene," Police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck said.
There is no word as to a suspect description or lookout.
Zales is located on the third level of the mall, near Nordstrom. The storm remained closed for the rest of the day as investigators looked for clues.
"The suburban shopping centers are getting like anywhere else, a little dangerous," added shopper Mike Gilchrest.
A scary and brazen crime that was not only conducted during the day, but with plenty of security camera capturing their actions. Surveillance video shows the four men walking into the store and smashing the jewelry counter.
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The naming of trails is an artform. I can pretty much guarantee you that most trail names don't offer much in the way of hints as to what you might experience should you decide to walk them. The Switchback Trail may be a notable exception or the Grand Ridge Trail, which certainly is grand.
The Upper Maynard Burn Way Trail is a case in point. There was, in fact, a large fire in the area in the early 1900s, but 100 years can change things. Yet you still can find trees which survived this fire and still find some standing that did not survive. What amazes me is that some of these older trees hardly look more than a hundred years old. I suppose that the lack of soil has something to do with this — there's a lot of rock and very little soil.
And, what is a way trail? The Upper Maynard Burn Way Trail is one way to get to the summit of Mount Baldy and look over at the city of Sequim. It also is the way to get to the summit of Tyler Peak and it is a way to get to a way to walk between these two mountains. More importantly, it is not routinely maintained except by users of the trail.
And, to be honest, there really is no signage along the Upper Maynard Burn Way Trail that gives you a hint that you can reach Mount Baldy or Tyler Peak from this trail. In the spring the area near this trail could be called Deer Way. In fact it would be easy to follow a deer trail instead of the people trail. Actually, I'm not sure that there's a real difference although I do hope that the cougars recognize the difference.
I am reminded of Shakespeare's line, "What's in a name?" The thing to remember about the Upper Maynard Burn Way Trail is that it hugs the south side of the mountain range and is warmer than most other places in early spring. We usually walk the road up to the trailhead because of the views to the south and west and the warmth. Later when we climb higher, we will drive the almost two miles to our unmarked trailhead.
Another thing about these trails to Mount Baldy or Tyler Peak is that when you arrive at the tops of these mountains the trail disappears. Your choice is to stop or just keep going upward until there are no more mountains to climb. Other mountains, like Maiden Peak or Mount Townsend, have trails that seem to be carved into the mountainsides, well-worn, well-defined paths.
The explanation seems simple enough: More folks have walked up to Maiden Peak or Mount Townsend than up to Baldy or Tyler. But why? A well-worn path may give you some security, but is that why you choose to walk up a mountain? I think that "discovery" may trump security. There's no place that I've ever been that had better wildflowers than Tyler Peak or more bears, although there are plenty of bears along the Elwha Trail or along Obstruction Point Road.
So, I've strayed from my discussion of trail names, but the truth is that the names don't really matter. I'm not always sure that the trail matters. It's not that I want to get lost, it's just the older I get, the more I like to know where I am. But knowing where I am and being on a well-worn trail are not the same thing. Maybe that's what a "way" trail does, it leads you to new places and new experiences, but makes no promises.
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Now is the time for all good men to choose nuclear power over wind
Written by Paul Gauvin
August 10, 2007
Like a spiral in a circle and a wheel within a wheel, grasping the spin on both sides of the Wind Farm issue has been quite an occupation for Cape Codders, assorted politicians and special interests for several years now as the project teeters on the front burner of contentious human endeavor.
Briefly, the idea is that a wind farm on Horseshoe Shoals will reduce toxic emissions that are warming the planet and generating predictable negative impacts on life forms, sea level and vegetation. Proponents call the wind clean power, or green power, in any event, non-polluting power atmospherically.
To combat damaging fossil fuel emissions, a developer wants to construct some 130 turbines with rotating blades in what detractors say is nearly sacred public property, a natural national treasurer in Nantucket Sound.
This column has been largely neutral, a bystander with a ringside seat to what has proved to be an exciting, educational dialogue with understandable biases on both sides of the issue.
Why neutral? Because the fella who pens this weekly offer of opinion does not sail the Sound, does not have a waterfront home with a threatened view and is not overly emotional about global warming insofar as the author will have passed on to a hotter place by the time the effects of warming actually choke life as we now know it.
This issue has been such that a book was even written about it, which this writer has not read.
What he has done, however, is visit the wind farms in Southern California's San Gorgonio Pass between L.A. and Palm Springs, one of the premier windy places in the States, and peruse the commentary of those who have more knowledge of the global issue.
Two comments stand out: One is by Lloyd Crawford of the National Wind Watch, an on-line anti-wind coalition. He claims, though I know not from whence his figures, that producing just 5 percent of the nation's electric energy with windmills would require 10 million acres of wild and rural (we might add offshore) space. To underscore that observation, history shows wind turbines fall far short of stated capacity.
What is digested from Crawford's assertion is that wind alone will likely never supply much of the nation's electricity. Wind is neither dependable nor constant and neither is solar power, interrupted as it is by low atmospheric changes. The 3,000 wind towers in and around Gorgonio Pass and the rest of the country provide only 1 percent of the nation's power needs, Crawford reports.
What really shoves this column off the fence of neutrality is France, which happens to be the cradle of this writer's ancestors, eh?
France derives 75 percent of its power needs from clean nuclear reactors and has enough left over to supply other nearby countries. Most importantly, France has found an answer to U.S, fears of storing spent fuel rods. France has a plant and the technology to recycle the rods as we do milk cartons and newspapers, reducing fears of catastrophe.
Surprisingly, several major candidates for the Democratic nomination for president said they were against nuclear power because of safety concerns. Shame on them for not knowing how France has found an answer to waste storage and how much safety has been improved, the topic of a 60 Minutes segment several months ago.
The argument that nuclear plants are "very expensive" is no excuse when we consider the cost of Bush's needless war in Iraq and the $15 billion or so Big Dig that services one relatively tiny place in this vast landscape of ours.
That cost is not daunting, infers Clay Sells, U.S. deputy secretary of energy: "Two years ago there was exactly zero plants (nuclear reactors) on the drawing boards. Today 15 companies are talking about building 30 commercial reactors. We think there is a significant chance many of them will be built."
He says "no serious person" can escape the conclusion that nuclear power will play the biggest role in the reduction of greenhouse gases, not solar, not wind.
In that case, this column signs on to that scenario, supports nuclear emphasis (the same power generation that propels our massive aircraft carriers safely) while putting the needless desecration of Nantucket Sound's natural seascape on the back burner.
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