An "inbound-channel-adapter" element can invoke any method on a Spring-managed Object and send a non-null return value to a MessageChannel after converting it to a Message. When the adapter's subscription is activated, a poller will attempt to receive messages from the source. The poller will be scheduled with the TaskScheduler according to the provided configuration. To configure the polling interval or cron expression for an individual channel-adapter, provide a 'poller' element with either an 'interval-trigger' (in milliseconds) or 'cron-trigger' sub-element.

<inbound-channel-adapter ref="source1" method="method1" channel="channel1">
    <poller>
        <interval-trigger interval="5000"/>
    </poller>
</inbound-channel-adapter>

<inbound-channel-adapter ref="source2" method="method2" channel="channel2">
    <poller>
        <cron-trigger expression="30 * 9-17 * * MON-FRI"/>
    </poller>
</channel-adapter>

	Note
	If no poller is provided, then a single default poller must be registered within the context. See Section 4.4, “Namespace Support” for more detail.

An "outbound-channel-adapter" element can also connect a MessageChannel to any POJO consumer method that should be invoked with the payload of Messages sent to that channel.

<outbound-channel-adapter channel="channel1" ref="target1" method="method1"/>

If the channel being adapted is a PollableChannel, provide a poller sub-element:

<outbound-channel-adapter channel="channel2" ref="target2" method="method2">
    <poller>
        <interval-trigger interval="3000"/>
    </poller>
</outbound-channel-adapter>
<beans:bean id="target1" class="org.bar.Foo"/>

Using a "ref" attribute is generally recommended if the POJO consumer implementation can be reused in other <outbound-channel-adapter> definitions. However if the consumer implementation should be scoped to a single definition of the <outbound-channel-adapter>, you can define it as inner bean:

<outbound-channel-adapter channel="channel2" method="method2">
        <beans:bean class="org.bar.Foo"/>
    
</outbound-channel-adapter>

	Note
	Using both the "ref" attribute and an inner handler definition in the same <outbound-channel-adapter> configuration is not allowed, as it creates an ambiguous condition and will result in an Exception being thrown.

Any Channel Adapter can be created without a "channel" reference in which case it will implicitly create an instance of DirectChannel. The created channel's name will match the "id" attribute of the <inbound-channel-adapter/> or <outbound-channel-adapter element. Therefore, if the "channel" is not provided, the "id" is required.