Sorry. I still don’t quite understand. After looking through the user guide 
again and doing some searches it seems like this annotation provides support 
for Bean Binding. So I guess I should be asking: what is bean binding and what 
are the use cases?

> On Jul 7, 2019, at 11:31 AM, Claus Ibsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> No its not the same @Handler is NOT for consuming.
> 
> Its like
> 
>   from file
>     to bean
>     to file
> 
> And then you have a bean with some methods, and then to tell Camel
> that is should use a specific method then you can add @Handler.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 6:14 PM Richard Flores <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> This is confusing:
>> 
>>        “You can use @Handler when you have a POJO with N+ methods….such as 
>> when you send a message to the bean endpoint, or use bean(MyBeanClass.class) 
>> in the route”
>> 
>> This is effectively doing the same thing as a bean with @Consume annotation, 
>> no? Why are there seemingly two ways of doing the same thing? In the context 
>> of a Spring Boot/Camel/ActiveMQ what am I missing?
>> 
>> Any info is appreciated!
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 7, 2019, at 10:05 AM, Claus Ibsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> @Handler is not related to ConsumerTemplate.
>>> 
>>> You can use @Handler when you have a POJO with N+ methods, and you
>>> just want to tell Camel that it should always use this method when
>>> Camel is using this bean, such as when you send a message to the bean
>>> endpoint, or use bean(MyBeanClass.class) in the route etc.
>>> 
>>> On the other hand @Consume is an annotation you can use on a bean to
>>> let Camel use the method as consumer, and this is more related to
>>> consumer template. Then you can do POJO messaging, eg if you use
>>> Spring Boot you can do this on beans you let Spring Boot manage.
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/apache/camel/tree/master/examples/camel-example-pojo-messaging
>>>  
>>> <https://github.com/apache/camel/tree/master/examples/camel-example-pojo-messaging>
>>>  
>>> <https://github.com/apache/camel/tree/master/examples/camel-example-pojo-messaging
>>>  
>>> <https://github.com/apache/camel/tree/master/examples/camel-example-pojo-messaging>>
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 4:48 PM Richard Flores <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I’m new to Camel, trying to get my head wrapped around conventions and 
>>>> usages and get some samples going. I’m trying to understand what is the 
>>>> difference between Consumer Templates and the @Handler Annotation.
>>>> 
>>>> According to http://camel.apache.org/manual/camel-manual-2.3.0.html 
>>>> <http://camel.apache.org/manual/camel-manual-2.3.0.html> 
>>>> <http://camel.apache.org/manual/camel-manual-2.3.0.html 
>>>> <http://camel.apache.org/manual/camel-manual-2.3.0.html>> 
>>>> <http://camel.apache.org/manual/camel-manual-2.3.0.html 
>>>> <http://camel.apache.org/manual/camel-manual-2.3.0.html> 
>>>> <http://camel.apache.org/manual/camel-manual-2.3.0.html 
>>>> <http://camel.apache.org/manual/camel-manual-2.3.0.html>>>
>>>> 
>>>>       @Handler
>>>> 
>>>>       Available as of Camel 2.0
>>>> 
>>>>       You can mark a method in your bean with the @Handler annotation to 
>>>> indicate that this method should be used for Bean Binding.
>>>>       This has the advantage as you do not have to specify the method name 
>>>> in the Camel route. And thus you do not run into problems when you rename 
>>>> the method name using an IDE that don't find all references.
>>>> 
>>>>       public class Bar {
>>>> 
>>>>               @Handler
>>>>               public String doSomething(Stringbody) {
>>>>                       // process the in body and return whatever you want
>>>>                       return "Bye World";
>>>>       }
>>>> 
>>>> Given a bean with configured routes and a producer template, I get the 
>>>> impression that you could use a bean with a method annotated with @Handler 
>>>> in lieu of a bean with a regular method that uses a consumer template.
>>>> 
>>>> Is this correct? What am I missing?
>>>> 
>>>> Also, I’m planning on using Spring Boot with Spring for Apache ActiveMQ 
>>>> and Apache Camel, do the producer/consumer, handler concepts change?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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> 
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