The situation is as I outlined in the example. If you're using a component (like salesforce REST which uses the header and body in some interactions) to get intermediate results as part of a longer route, that component may need to control the header and body of the request+response.
I don't see how you can really use the header to store a state object on the side in those cases without sending it to the other component (e.g. in a REST call as above). I'm hoping that Claus can comment on how exactly the bean scope works for the example above but will poke around with other options. -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/to-bean-xxx-or-not-to-bean-xxx-Getting-clarity-on-bean-scope-tp5754593p5754686.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.