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The binding of a Camel Message to a bean method call can occur in different ways

• if the bean can be converted to a Processor using the Type Converter mechanism then this is used to process the message. This mechanism is used by the ActiveMQ component to allow any MessageListener to be invoked by the Bean component
• if the body of the message can be converted to a BeanInvocation (the default payload used by the ProxyHelper) - then that its used to invoke the method and pass the arguments
• if the message contains the header org.apache.camel.MethodName then that method is invoked, converting the body to whatever the argument is to the method
• otherwise the type of the method body is used to try find a method which matches; an error is thrown if a single method cannot be chosen unambiguously.

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