diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChannelParser.java b/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChannelParser.java
index 7c84487bcc..c393e667dc 100644
--- a/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChannelParser.java
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChannelParser.java
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@ public class ChannelParser implements BeanDefinitionParser {
 		}
 		channelDef.getConstructorArgumentValues().addGenericArgumentValue(dispatcherPolicy);
 		String beanName = element.getAttribute(ID_ATTRIBUTE);
-		if (!StringUtils.hasText(beanName)) {
-			beanName = parserContext.getReaderContext().generateBeanName(channelDef);
-		}
 		parserContext.registerBeanComponent(new BeanComponentDefinition(channelDef, beanName));
 		return channelDef;
 	}
diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/spring-integration-1.0.xsd b/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/spring-integration-1.0.xsd
index e6979063b1..ba5783bd99 100644
--- a/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/spring-integration-1.0.xsd
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/config/spring-integration-1.0.xsd
@@ -47,15 +47,12 @@
 	Defines a message channel.
 				</xsd:documentation>
 			</xsd:annotation>
-			<xsd:complexContent>
-				<xsd:extension base="beans:identifiedType">
-					<xsd:sequence>
-						<xsd:element ref="dispatcher-policy" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
-					</xsd:sequence>
-					<xsd:attribute name="capacity" type="xsd:integer"/>
-					<xsd:attribute name="publish-subscribe" type="xsd:boolean" default="false"/>
-				</xsd:extension>
-			</xsd:complexContent>
+			<xsd:sequence>
+				<xsd:element ref="dispatcher-policy" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
+			</xsd:sequence>
+			<xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:ID" use="required"/>
+			<xsd:attribute name="capacity" type="xsd:integer"/>
+			<xsd:attribute name="publish-subscribe" type="xsd:boolean" default="false"/>
 		</xsd:complexType>
 	</xsd:element>
 
diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/scheduling/MessagePublishingErrorHandler.java b/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/scheduling/MessagePublishingErrorHandler.java
index ab54183a0a..c76387e102 100644
--- a/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/scheduling/MessagePublishingErrorHandler.java
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/scheduling/MessagePublishingErrorHandler.java
@@ -53,9 +53,7 @@ public class MessagePublishingErrorHandler implements ErrorHandler {
 	public void handle(Throwable t) {
 		if (this.errorChannel != null) {
 			try {
-				if(this.errorChannel.send(new ErrorMessage(t), this.sendTimeout)) {
-					return;
-				}
+				this.errorChannel.send(new ErrorMessage(t), this.sendTimeout);
 			}
 			catch (Throwable ignore) { // message will be logged only
 			}
diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChannelParserTests.java b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChannelParserTests.java
index 6ea86e0dcb..197f8cbc11 100644
--- a/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChannelParserTests.java
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/ChannelParserTests.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException;
 import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
 import org.springframework.integration.channel.MessageChannel;
 import org.springframework.integration.dispatcher.DefaultMessageDispatcher;
@@ -40,6 +41,11 @@ import org.springframework.integration.message.StringMessage;
  */
 public class ChannelParserTests {
 
+	@Test(expected=FatalBeanException.class)
+	public void testChannelWithoutId() {
+		new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("channelWithoutId.xml", this.getClass());
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void testChannelWithCapacity() {
 		ClassPathXmlApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/channelWithoutId.xml b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/channelWithoutId.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8214cfb79d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/channelWithoutId.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xmlns:integration="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration-1.0.xsd">
+
+	<integration:channel/>
+
+</beans>