Message channels and Adapters
Message Channel A message channel is use to transport the message from one messaging endpoint to another. It integrate the messaging endpoints. Message channel used to decouple the message producer and consumer.
There are 3 interface provided for message -
1. Message Channel Interface It is the base interface they provide two methods to send the messages
public interface MessageChannel { boolean send(Message message); boolean send(Message message, long timeout); } The return value true means message sent successful.