# Miscellaneous

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AOP — Does processing before and/or after the route is completed
Policy — Defines a policy the route will use
Sampling — Extract a sample of the exchanges passing through a route
Stop — Stops the processing of the current message
Threads — Specifies that all steps after this node are processed asynchronously
Validate — Validates a message based on an expression

| Note
Though the Inherit Error Handler property appears in the Properties editor for each miscellaneous EIP, its use is appropriate with the Load Balance pattern only.