HI, I am new to SI and using 2.1.0.RELEASE. I noticed that the spring integration will create a channel automatically even the channel was not defined. for example, the code below will work (even there is no <channel id="countChannel"/> defined):

<gateway id="gateway" service-interface="....."
default-request-channel="countChannel"/>

<service-activator input-channel="countChannel" ref="counter1" method="count"/>


is there a way to stop this behaviour?


many thanks,
Zhu