Bean

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Binds a bean to Camel message exchanges

The Bean pattern can be placed anywhere in the body of a route.

Table 31, “Bean Properties” describes the properties you can specify using the properties editor.

Table 31. Bean Properties

Name	Description
`Bean Type`	Specifies the type of the bean.
`Cache`	Specifies whether Apache Camel will cache the first Registry lookup. Default is disabled. NOTE: This property can be enabled only if the bean in the Registry is defined with a singleton scope.
`Description`	Specifies a text description for the node. This description is included in the generated XML file, but it is informational only. It is not used by Apache Camel.
`Id`	Specifies a unique identifier for the endpoint. The tooling automatically generates an id for a node when it is created, but you can remove that id or replace it with your own. The Camel debugger requires all nodes with a breakpoint set to have a unique id. You can use the id to refer to endpoints in your Camel XML file.
`Method`	Specifies the method to invoke on the bean. If no value is provided Apache Camel will attempt to determine the method to invoke. If no method can be determined a AmbiguousMethodCallException exception is thrown.
`Multi Parameter Array`	Specifies whether to treat the parameters passed in the In message body as an array of parameters. Default is disabled.
`Ref`	Sets a reference to a bean to use.

For more information, see Bean Component.