Oleg Zhurakousky added a comment - 14/Jul/11 8:05 AM - edited There are some interesting discussions about the need for something like this (on demand, configurable remote operations) http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?110125-Sftp-outbound-to-multiple-destinations http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?112086-Inbound-FTP-Polling-sub-directories&p=371633&posted=1#post371633 Although currently we have a clear pattern within SI where each and every gateway/adapter is a static "addressable" component (and there are many reasons for it), so an alternative approach would be to create a RemoteFileTemplate which also fits Spring paradigm. In other words we have to make a decision. Either we stand by our position that "adapters are addressable endpoints" while *Templates can be used for dynamic situations, OR we make some big changes in 2.1+ so that adapters can indeed have multiple addresses that are dynamically determined at runtime.