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Using Exchange Pattern Annotations

When working with Bean Integration POJO Producing or Spring Remoting you invoke methods which typically by default are InOut for request/reply Request Reply. That is there is an In message and an Out for the result. Typically invoking this operation will be synchronous, the caller will block until the server returns a result.

Its often required to support the InOnly message exchange pattern Camel has flexible Exchange Pattern support - so you can also support the Event Message pattern to use InOnly for asynchronous or one way operations. These are often called 'fire and forget' like sending a JMS message but not waiting for any response.

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