Number of files picked up by file adapter

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I have a scenario in which - I have a large number of files at the same time - to be picked up by the file adapter - each file is very small in size - like a token file a few k in size.

If I have - say 1000 files present in the folder meeting the criteria to be picked up , will the comm.channel pick up all of the 1000 - or is there a limit - on the number of files picked up in each polling ? Where is this limit set - in the comm. channel definition or somewhere on the J2EE engine at a much higher level ?

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