[CAMEL-4928] Async API support by the Timer component

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.12.0
• Component/s: camel-core
• Labels: timer
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Claus Ibsen
• Reporter: Sergey Zhemzhitsky
• Created: 22/Jan/12 03:07
• Updated: 07/Aug/13 16:49
• Resolved: 07/Aug/13 16:49

Description

It would be great to have timer component support asynchronous API.
Such a feature can be useful when timer component generates events which must be processed by multiple threads.
Current implementation of the timer component makes a blocking call so the usage of thread pools hardly possible to process multiple timer event simultaneously.

Sample

from("timer:start")
    .threads(1, 5)
    .to("bean:very-long-operation");