001 /** 002 * 003 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 004 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 005 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 006 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 007 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 008 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 009 * 010 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 011 * 012 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 013 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 014 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 015 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 016 * limitations under the License. 017 */ 018 package org.apache.camel; 019 020 /** 021 * Provides a channel on which clients can create and invoke message exchanges on an {@link Endpoint} 022 * 023 * @version $Revision: 534145 $ 024 */ 025 public interface Producer<E extends Exchange> extends Processor, Service { 026 027 Endpoint<E> getEndpoint(); 028 029 /** 030 * Creates a new exchange to send to this endpoint 031 * 032 * @return a newly created exchange 033 */ 034 E createExchange(); 035 036 /** 037 * Creates a new exchange for communicating with this exchange using the given exchange to pre-populate the values 038 * of the headers and messages 039 */ 040 E createExchange(E exchange); 041 }