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-<div class="wiki-content maincontent"><h3 id="RecipientList-RecipientList">Recipient List</h3><p>The <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/RecipientList.html" rel="nofollow">Recipient List</a> from the <a shape="rect" href="enterprise-integration-patterns.html">EIP patterns</a> allows you to route messages to a number of dynamically specified recipients.</p><p><span class="confluence-embedded-file-wrapper"><img class="confluence-embedded-image confluence-external-resource" src="http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/img/RecipientList.gif" data-image-src="http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/img/RecipientList.gif"></span></p><p>The recipients will receive a copy of the <strong>same</strong> <a shape="rect" href="exchange.html">Exchange</a>, and Camel will execute them sequentially.</p><h3 id="RecipientList-Options">Options</h3><div class="confluenceTableSmall"><div class="table-wrap"><table class="confluenceTable"><tbod
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 t-StaticRecipientList">Static Recipient List</h4><p>The following example shows how to route a request from an input <strong>queue:a</strong> endpoint to a static list of destinations</p><p><strong>Using Annotations</strong><br clear="none"> You can use the <a shape="rect" href="recipientlist-annotation.html">RecipientList Annotation</a> on a POJO to create a Dynamic Recipient List. For more details see the <a shape="rect" href="bean-integration.html">Bean Integration</a>.</p><p><strong>Using the <a shape="rect" href="fluent-builders.html">Fluent Builders</a></strong></p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
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 gate/TimeoutAwareAggregationStrategy.html">TimeoutAwareAggregationStrategy</a>, its <code>timeout</code> method is invoked before breaking out. <strong>Beware:</strong> If the timeout is reached with running tasks still remaining, certain tasks (for which it is difficult for Camel to shut down in a graceful manner) may continue to run. So use this option with caution. We may be able to improve this functionality in future Camel releases.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><code>onPrepareRef</code></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p>&#160;</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><strong>Camel 2.8:</strong> A custom <a shape="rect" href="processor.html">Processor</a> to prepare the copy of the <a shape="rect" href="exchange.html">Exchange</a> each recipient will receive. This allows you to perform arbitrary transformations, such as deep-cloning the message payload (or any other custom logic).</p></td></tr><
 tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><code>shareUnitOfWork</code></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><code>false</code></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><strong>Camel 2.8:</strong> Whether the unit of work should be shared. See <a shape="rect" href="splitter.html#Splitter-Sharingunitofwork">the same option on Splitter</a> for more details.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><code>cacheSize</code></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><code>1000</code></p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" class="confluenceTd"><p><strong>Camel 2.13.1/2.12.4:</strong> Allows to configure the cache size for the <code>ProducerCache</code> which caches producers for reuse in the recipient list. Will by default use the default cache size which is 1000. Setting the value to -1 allows to turn off the cache completely.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><h4 id="RecipientList-Stati
 cRecipientList">Static Recipient List</h4><p>The following example shows how to route a request from an input <strong>queue:a</strong> endpoint to a static list of destinations</p><p><strong>Using Annotations</strong><br clear="none"> You can use the <a shape="rect" href="recipientlist-annotation.html">RecipientList Annotation</a> on a POJO to create a Dynamic Recipient List. For more details see the <a shape="rect" href="bean-integration.html">Bean Integration</a>.</p><p><strong>Using the <a shape="rect" href="fluent-builders.html">Fluent Builders</a></strong></p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
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+</div></div><h4 id="RecipientList-DynamicRecipientList">Dynamic Recipient List</h4><p>Usually one of the main reasons for using the <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/RecipientList.html" rel="nofollow">Recipient List</a> pattern is that the list of recipients is dynamic and calculated at runtime. The following example demonstrates how to create a dynamic recipient list using an <a shape="rect" href="expression.html">Expression</a> (which in this case extracts a named header value dynamically) to calculate the list of endpoints which are either of type <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://camel.apache.org/maven/current/camel-core/apidocs/org/apache/camel/Endpoint.html">Endpoint</a> or are converted to a String and then resolved using the endpoint <a shape="rect" href="uris.html">URIs</a>.</p><p><strong>Using the <a shape="rect" href="fluent-builders.html">Fluent Builders</a></strong></p><div class="code panel pdl" st
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+</div></div><h5 id="RecipientList-Iteratablevalue">Iteratable value</h5><p>The dynamic list of recipients that are defined in the header must be iterable such as:</p><ul class="alternate"><li><code>java.util.Collection</code></li><li><code>java.util.Iterator</code></li><li>arrays</li><li><code>org.w3c.dom.NodeList</code></li><li>a single String with values separated by comma</li><li>any other type will be regarded as a single value</li></ul><p><strong>Using the <a shape="rect" href="spring-xml-extensions.html">Spring XML Extensions</a></strong></p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
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 ]]></script>
-</div></div>For further examples of this pattern in use you could look at one of the <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/camel/trunk/camel-core/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/processor/RecipientListTest.java?view=markup">junit test case</a><h5 id="RecipientList-UsingdelimiterinSpringXML">Using delimiter in Spring XML</h5><p>In Spring DSL you can set the <code>delimiter</code> attribute for setting a delimiter to be used if the header value is a single String with multiple separated endpoints. By default Camel uses comma as delimiter, but this option lets you specify a customer delimiter to use instead.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div>For further examples of this pattern in action you could take a look at one of the <a shape="rect" class="external-link" href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/camel/trunk/camel-core/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/processor/RecipientListTest.java?view=markup">junit test case</a><h5 id="RecipientList-UsingdelimiterinSpringXML">Using delimiter in Spring XML</h5><p>In Spring DSL you can set the <code>delimiter</code> attribute for setting a delimiter to be used if the header value is a single String with multiple separated endpoints. By default Camel uses comma as delimiter, but this option lets you specify a custom delimiter to use instead.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: xml; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[
 &lt;route&gt;
   &lt;from uri=&quot;direct:a&quot; /&gt;
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ from(&quot;direct:a&quot;).recipientList
   &lt;/recipientList&gt;
 &lt;/route&gt;
 ]]></script>
-</div></div>So if <strong>myHeader</strong> contains a String with the value <code>"activemq:queue:foo, activemq:topic:hello , log:bar"</code> then Camel will split the String using the delimiter given in the XML that was comma, resulting into 3 endpoints to send to. You can use spaces between the endpoints as Camel will trim the value when it lookup the endpoint to send to.<p>Note: In Java DSL you use the <code>tokenizer</code> to archive the same. The route above in Java DSL:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div>So if <strong>myHeader</strong> contains a String with the value <code>"activemq:queue:foo, activemq:topic:hello , log:bar"</code> then Camel will split the String using the delimiter given in the XML that was comma, resulting into 3 endpoints to send to. You can use spaces between the endpoints as Camel will trim the value when it lookup the endpoint to send to.<p>Note: In Java DSL you use the <code>tokenizer</code> to achieve the same. The route above in Java DSL:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[    from(&quot;direct:a&quot;).recipientList(header(&quot;myHeader&quot;).tokenize(&quot;,&quot;));
 ]]></script>
 </div></div><p>In <strong>Camel 2.1</strong> its a bit easier as you can pass in the delimiter as 2nd parameter:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ from(&quot;direct:a&quot;).recipientList
 </div></div><h3 id="RecipientList-Sendingtomultiplerecipientsinparallel">Sending to multiple recipients in parallel</h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.2</strong></p><p>The <a shape="rect" href="recipient-list.html">Recipient List</a> now supports <code>parallelProcessing</code> that for example <a shape="rect" href="splitter.html">Splitter</a> also supports. You can use it to use a thread pool to have concurrent tasks sending the <a shape="rect" href="exchange.html">Exchange</a> to multiple recipients concurrently.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[    from(&quot;direct:a&quot;).recipientList(header(&quot;myHeader&quot;)).parallelProcessing();
 ]]></script>
-</div></div><p>And in Spring XML its an attribute on the recipient list tag.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><p>And in Spring XML it is an attribute on the recipient list tag.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[   &lt;route&gt;
        &lt;from uri=&quot;direct:a&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;recipientList parallelProcessing=&quot;true&quot;&gt;
@@ -175,10 +175,10 @@ from(&quot;direct:a&quot;).recipientList
        &lt;/recipientList&gt;
    &lt;/route&gt;
 ]]></script>
-</div></div><p><strong>Note:</strong> You can combine <code>parallelProcessing</code> and <code>stopOnException</code> and have them both <code>true</code>.</p><h3 id="RecipientList-Ignoreinvalidendpoints">Ignore invalid endpoints</h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.3</strong></p><p>The <a shape="rect" href="recipient-list.html">Recipient List</a> now supports <code>ignoreInvalidEndpoints</code> which the <a shape="rect" href="routing-slip.html">Routing Slip</a> also supports. You can use it to skip endpoints which is invalid.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><p><strong>Note:</strong> You can combine <code>parallelProcessing</code> and <code>stopOnException</code> and have them both <code>true</code>.</p><h3 id="RecipientList-Ignoreinvalidendpoints">Ignore invalid endpoints</h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.3</strong></p><p>The <a shape="rect" href="recipient-list.html">Recipient List</a> now supports <code>ignoreInvalidEndpoints</code> which the <a shape="rect" href="routing-slip.html">Routing Slip</a> also supports. You can use it to skip endpoints which are invalid.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[    from(&quot;direct:a&quot;).recipientList(header(&quot;myHeader&quot;)).ignoreInvalidEndpoints();
 ]]></script>
-</div></div><p>And in Spring XML its an attribute on the recipient list tag.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><p>And in Spring XML it is an attribute on the recipient list tag.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[   &lt;route&gt;
        &lt;from uri=&quot;direct:a&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;recipientList ignoreInvalidEndpoints=&quot;true&quot;&gt;
@@ -186,12 +186,12 @@ from(&quot;direct:a&quot;).recipientList
        &lt;/recipientList&gt;
    &lt;/route&gt;
 ]]></script>
-</div></div><p>Then lets say the <code>myHeader</code> contains the following two endpoints <code>direct:foo,xxx:bar</code>. The first endpoint is valid and works. However the 2nd is invalid and will just be ignored. Camel logs at INFO level about, so you can see why the endpoint was invalid.</p><h3 id="RecipientList-UsingcustomAggregationStrategy">Using custom <code>AggregationStrategy</code></h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.2</strong></p><p>You can now use you own <code>AggregationStrategy</code> with the <a shape="rect" href="recipient-list.html">Recipient List</a>. However its not that often you need that. What its good for is that in case you are using <a shape="rect" href="request-reply.html">Request Reply</a> messaging then the replies from the recipient can be aggregated. By default Camel uses <code>UseLatestAggregationStrategy</code> which just keeps that last received reply. What if you must remember all the bodies that all the recipients send back, then you can use 
 your own custom aggregator that keeps those. Its the same principle as with the <a shape="rect" href="aggregator.html">Aggregator</a> EIP so check it out for details.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><p>Then let us say the <code>myHeader</code> contains the following two endpoints <code>direct:foo,xxx:bar</code>. The first endpoint is valid and works. However the second one is invalid and will just be ignored. Camel logs at INFO level about it, so you can see why the endpoint was invalid.</p><h3 id="RecipientList-UsingcustomAggregationStrategy">Using custom <code>AggregationStrategy</code></h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.2</strong></p><p>You can now use your own <code>AggregationStrategy</code> with the <a shape="rect" href="recipient-list.html">Recipient List</a>. However this is rarely needed. What it is good for is that in case you are using <a shape="rect" href="request-reply.html">Request Reply</a> messaging then the replies from the recipients can be aggregated. By default Camel uses <code>UseLatestAggregationStrategy</code> which just keeps that last received reply. If you must remember all the bodies that all the recipients send back, then you can use 
 your own custom aggregator that keeps those. It is the same principle as with the <a shape="rect" href="aggregator.html">Aggregator</a> EIP so check it out for details.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[    from(&quot;direct:a&quot;)
         .recipientList(header(&quot;myHeader&quot;)).aggregationStrategy(new MyOwnAggregationStrategy())
         .to(&quot;direct:b&quot;);
 ]]></script>
-</div></div><p>And in Spring XML its an attribute on the recipient list tag.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><p>And in Spring XML it is again an attribute on the recipient list tag.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[   &lt;route&gt;
        &lt;from uri=&quot;direct:a&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;recipientList strategyRef=&quot;myStrategy&quot;&gt;
@@ -202,14 +202,14 @@ from(&quot;direct:a&quot;).recipientList
 
    &lt;bean id=&quot;myStrategy&quot; class=&quot;com.mycompany.MyOwnAggregationStrategy&quot;/&gt;
 ]]></script>
-</div></div><h4 id="RecipientList-KnowingwhichendpointwhenusingcustomAggregationStrategy">Knowing which endpoint when using custom <code>AggregationStrategy</code></h4><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.12</strong></p><p>When using a custom <code>AggregationStrategy</code> then the <code>aggregate</code> method is always invoked in the sequential order (also if parallel processing is enabled) of the endpoints the <a shape="rect" href="recipient-list.html">Recipient List</a> is using. However from Camel 2.12 this is easier to know as the <code>newExchange</code> <a shape="rect" href="exchange.html">Exchange</a> has a property stored (key is <code>Exchange.RECIPIENT_LIST_ENDPOINT</code> with the uri of the <a shape="rect" href="endpoint.html">Endpoint</a>.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><h4 id="RecipientList-KnowingwhichendpointwhenusingcustomAggregationStrategy">Knowing which endpoint when using custom <code>AggregationStrategy</code></h4><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.12</strong></p><p>When using a custom <code>AggregationStrategy</code> then the <code>aggregate</code> method is always invoked in sequential order (also if parallel processing is enabled) of the endpoints the <a shape="rect" href="recipient-list.html">Recipient List</a> is using. However from Camel 2.12 onwards this is easier to know as the <code>newExchange</code> <a shape="rect" href="exchange.html">Exchange</a> has a property stored (key is <code>Exchange.RECIPIENT_LIST_ENDPOINT</code> with the uri of the <a shape="rect" href="endpoint.html">Endpoint</a>.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[    @Override
     public Exchange aggregate(Exchange oldExchange, Exchange newExchange) {
         String uri = newExchange.getProperty(Exchange.RECIPIENT_LIST_ENDPOINT, String.class);
         ...
     }
 ]]></script>
-</div></div><h3 id="RecipientList-Usingcustomthreadpool">Using custom thread pool</h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.2</strong></p><p>A thread pool is only used for <code>parallelProcessing</code>. You supply your own custom thread pool via the <code>ExecutorServiceStrategy</code> (see Camel's <a shape="rect" href="threading-model.html">Threading Model</a>), the same way you would do it for the <code>aggregationStrategy</code>. By default Camel uses a thread pool with 10 threads (subject to change in a future version).</p><h3 id="RecipientList-Usingmethodcallasrecipientlist">Using method call as recipient list</h3><p>You can use a <a shape="rect" href="bean.html">Bean</a> to provide the recipients, for example:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><h3 id="RecipientList-Usingcustomthreadpool">Using custom thread pool</h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.2</strong></p><p>A thread pool is only used for <code>parallelProcessing</code>. You supply your own custom thread pool via the <code>ExecutorServiceStrategy</code> (see Camel's <a shape="rect" href="threading-model.html">Threading Model</a>), the same way you would do it for the <code>aggregationStrategy</code>. By default Camel uses a thread pool with 10 threads (subject to change in future versions).</p><h3 id="RecipientList-Usingmethodcallasrecipientlist">Using method call as recipient list</h3><p>You can use a <a shape="rect" href="bean.html">Bean</a> to provide the recipients, for example:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[from(&quot;activemq:queue:test&quot;).recipientList().method(MessageRouter.class, &quot;routeTo&quot;);
 ]]></script>
 </div></div><p>And then <code>MessageRouter</code>:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ from(&quot;direct:a&quot;).recipientList
     }
 }
 ]]></script>
-</div></div><p>When you use a <a shape="rect" href="bean.html">Bean</a> then do <strong>not</strong> also use the <code>@RecipientList</code> annotation as this will in fact add yet another recipient list, so you end up having two. Do <strong>not</strong> do like this.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><p>When you use a <a shape="rect" href="bean.html">Bean</a> then do <strong>not</strong>&#160;use the <code>@RecipientList</code> annotation as this will in fact add yet another recipient list, so you end up having two. Do <strong>not</strong> do the following.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[public class MessageRouter {
 
     @RecipientList
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ from(&quot;direct:a&quot;).recipientList
 </div></div><p>Well you should only do like that above (using <code>@RecipientList</code>) if you route just route to a <a shape="rect" href="bean.html">Bean</a> which you then want to act as a recipient list.<br clear="none"> So the original route can be changed to:</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[from(&quot;activemq:queue:test&quot;).bean(MessageRouter.class, &quot;routeTo&quot;);
 ]]></script>
-</div></div><p>Which then would invoke the routeTo method and detect its annotated with <code>@RecipientList</code> and then act accordingly as if it was a recipient list EIP.</p><h3 id="RecipientList-Usingtimeout">Using timeout</h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.5</strong></p><p>If you use <code>parallelProcessing</code> then you can configure a total <code>timeout</code> value in millis. Camel will then process the messages in parallel until the timeout is hit. This allows you to continue processing if one message is slow. For example you can set a timeout value of 20 sec.</p><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-warning"><p class="title">Tasks may keep running</p><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-error confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>If the timeout is reached with running tasks still remaining, certain tasks for which it is difficult for Camel to shut down in a graceful
  manner may continue to run. So use this option with a bit of care. We may be able to improve this functionality in future Camel releases.</p></div></div><p>For example in the unit test below you can see we multicast the message to 3 destinations. We have a timeout of 2 seconds, which means only the last two messages can be completed within the timeframe. This means we will only aggregate the last two which yields a result aggregation which outputs <code>"BC"</code>.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><p>Which then would invoke the routeTo method and detect that it is annotated with <code>@RecipientList</code> and then act accordingly as if it was a recipient list EIP.</p><h3 id="RecipientList-Usingtimeout">Using timeout</h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.5</strong></p><p>If you use <code>parallelProcessing</code> then you can configure a total <code>timeout</code> value in millis. Camel will then process the messages in parallel until the timeout is hit. This allows you to continue processing if one message consumer is slow. For example you can set a timeout value of 20 sec.</p><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-warning"><p class="title">Tasks may keep running</p><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-error confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>If the timeout is reached with running tasks still remaining, certain tasks for which it is difficult for Camel to shut do
 wn in a graceful manner may continue to run. So use this option with a bit of care. We may be able to improve this functionality in future Camel releases.</p></div></div><p>For example in the unit test below you can see that we multicast the message to 3 destinations. We have a timeout of 2 seconds, which means only the last two messages can be completed within the timeframe. This means we will only aggregate the last two which yields a result aggregation which outputs <code>"BC"</code>.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[
 from(&quot;direct:start&quot;)
     .multicast(new AggregationStrategy() {
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ from(&quot;direct:b&quot;).to(&quot;mock
 
 from(&quot;direct:c&quot;).to(&quot;mock:C&quot;).setBody(constant(&quot;C&quot;));
 ]]></script>
-</div></div><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-tip"><p class="title">Timeout in other EIPs</p><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-approve confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>This <code>timeout</code> feature is also supported by <a shape="rect" href="splitter.html">Splitter</a> and both <code>multicast</code> and <code>recipientList</code>.</p></div></div><p>By default if a timeout occurs the <code>AggregationStrategy</code> is not invoked. However you can implement a specialized version</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeHeader panelHeader pdl" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;"><b>TimeoutAwareAggregationStrategy</b></div><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-tip"><p class="title">Timeout in other EIPs</p><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-approve confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>This <code>timeout</code> feature is also supported by <a shape="rect" href="splitter.html">Splitter</a> and both <code>multicast</code> and <code>recipientList</code>.</p></div></div><p>By default if a timeout occurs the <code>AggregationStrategy</code> is not invoked. However you can implement a special version</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeHeader panelHeader pdl" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;"><b>TimeoutAwareAggregationStrategy</b></div><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[public interface TimeoutAwareAggregationStrategy extends AggregationStrategy {
 
     /**
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ from(&quot;direct:c&quot;).to(&quot;mock
      */
     void timeout(Exchange oldExchange, int index, int total, long timeout);
 ]]></script>
-</div></div><p>This allows you to deal with the timeout in the <code>AggregationStrategy</code> if you really need to.</p><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-information"><p class="title">Timeout is total</p><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-info confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>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 <code>timeout</code> method in the <code>TimeoutAwareAggregationStrategy</code> once, for the first index which caused the timeout.</p></div></div><h3 id="RecipientList-UsingonPreparetoexecutecustomlogicwhenpreparingmessages">Using onPrepare to execute custom logic when preparing messages</h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.8</strong></p><p>See details at <a shape="rect" href="multicast.html">Multicast</a><
 /p><h3 id="RecipientList-UsingExchangePatterninrecipients">Using ExchangePattern in recipients</h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.15</strong></p><p>The recipient list will by default use the current&#160;<a shape="rect" href="exchange-pattern.html">Exchange Pattern</a>. Though there can be use-cases where you want to send a message to a recipient using a different exchange pattern. For example you may have a route that initiates as a InOnly route, but want to use InOut exchange pattern with a recipient list. To do this in earlier Camel releases, you would need to change the&#160;exchange pattern before the recipient list, or use onPrepare option to alter the pattern. Now from Camel 2.15 onwards, you can configure the exchange pattern directly in the recipient endpoints.</p><p>For example in the route below we pickup new files (which will started as InOnly) and then route to a recipient list. As we want to use InOut with the ActiveMQ (JMS) endpoint we can now specify this using t
 he exchangePattern=InOut option. Then the response form the JMS request/reply will then be continued routed, and thus the response is what will be stored in as a file in the outbox directory.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
+</div></div><p>This allows you to deal with the timeout in the <code>AggregationStrategy</code> if you really need to.</p><div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-information"><p class="title">Timeout is total</p><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-info confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body"><p>The timeout is total, which means that after X time, Camel will aggregate the messages which have completed within the timeframe. The remainders will be cancelled. Camel will also only invoke the <code>timeout</code> method in the <code>TimeoutAwareAggregationStrategy</code> once, for the first index which caused the timeout.</p></div></div><h3 id="RecipientList-UsingonPreparetoexecutecustomlogicwhenpreparingmessages">Using onPrepare to execute custom logic when preparing messages</h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.8</strong></p><p>See details at <a shape="rect" href="multicast.html">Multicast</a>
 </p><h3 id="RecipientList-UsingExchangePatterninrecipients">Using ExchangePattern in recipients</h3><p><strong>Available as of Camel 2.15</strong></p><p>The recipient list will by default use the current&#160;<a shape="rect" href="exchange-pattern.html">Exchange Pattern</a>. Though one can imagine use-cases where one wants to send a message to a recipient using a different exchange pattern. For example you may have a route that initiates as an InOnly route, but want to use InOut exchange pattern with a recipient list. To do this in earlier Camel releases, you would need to change the&#160;exchange pattern before the recipient list, or use onPrepare option to alter the pattern. From Camel 2.15 onwards, you can configure the exchange pattern directly in the recipient endpoints.</p><p>For example in the route below we pick up new files (which will be started as InOnly) and then route to a recipient list. As we want to use InOut with the ActiveMQ (JMS) endpoint we can now specify this u
 sing the exchangePattern=InOut option. Then the response from the JMS request/reply will then be continued routed, and thus the response is what will be stored in as a file in the outbox directory.</p><div class="code panel pdl" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent pdl">
 <script class="brush: java; gutter: false; theme: Default" type="syntaxhighlighter"><![CDATA[from(&quot;file:inbox&quot;)
   // the exchange pattern is InOnly initially when using a file route
   .recipientList().constant(&quot;activemq:queue:inbox?exchangePattern=InOut&quot;)