olegz/spring-integration — comment on commit 8fb075b84a7a9b975d2a0e3fc48903579d654c84
File: spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/AbstractCorrelatingMessageHandlerParser.java line 83
By olegz:

No, i actually thought about it. It is consistent with Spring where XML wins over annotation, so the fact that it was checking the ref (where it would look for annotated methods for release and correlation etc) first before checking corresponding xml attributes was a mistake IMHO. But now you can have a bean that has all 3 annotated methods but can be overridden with corresponding XML