how to stop automatic channel creation?

[Tanz]

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

[Gary Russell]

There is currently no mechanism to do that.

We have identified that it would be desirable to manage some kind of system-wide options, (for example to cater for things like https://jira.springsource.org/browse/INT-2285).

This seems like another candidate for that mechanism.