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This is another blog post about some upcoming improvements and new features in the next Apache Camel 2.12 release.
In the last blog I spoke about cron expressions directly supported in the routes. This blog post is related as we have another new feature to the polling routes (using scheduled polling consumers).
The scheduled polling routes will by default poll for new messages at a fixed rate (usually every half second). Though in some use-cases new messages does not arrive evenly spread over the day, but may tend to arrive in batches. So during the times where there is no new messages arriving, the scheduled polling consumer, would not pickup new messages, but still keep looking for new messages at the same pace.
So what we have introduced is a backoff that allows you to let the scheduled polling consumer check less aggressive when there is no messages.
Source : http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/08/apache-camel-2-12-backoff-support-for-less-aggressive-polling-routes.html
