confusion on using direct and seda to reference endpoints

[lyfe]

I know direct is used for synchronous communication to an endpoint and seda uses asynchronous communication.  I got that from http://camel.apache.org/seda.html and http://camel.apache.org/direct.html.  However, I'm a bit confused on how this works and how to set up endpoints using direct and seda.

Do I just specify the endpoint in my route and reference them and that's it OR is there addition configuration that needs to be done?

Eg,

[davsclaus]

Yeah just like that, no additional configuration is needed.

[lyfe]

Ok.  Taking my scatter-gather post (http://fusesource.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1397&tstart=0), could I rewrite the logic as:

I'm trying to accomplish sending a request to multiple endpoints outside of the esb and aggregate the responses for combining and sending to the client.  It's not as nice as the code in my post I referenced but I'm looking for another way to accomplish my task.

If the above logic is do-able, can you point me to code to write a bean that will take messages and combine them in the above scenario?  The code I found for combining messages is in the context of writing an aggregation strategy (which takes one message at a time to aggregate).

[davsclaus]

You cannot have 2+ inputs to a route which is the same endpoint.

e.g. this is not allowed