Currently, the major challenge in developing social media applications is creating an efficient design of different repositories that can be unified to handle the abrupt increase in data generated by high volumes of user interactivity. Given the complexities of data stores, many are looking for an optimized solution of data mining and query techniques that can save a lot of project time, cost, and effort without affecting the performance of the system.
Aside from the data management part, social media applications, nowadays, would be profitable and powerful if they could be easily integrated with some existing legacy and enterprise applications, such as ERP. Again, there are lots of SOA or web service solutions, discussed in Chapter 8, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) that could be the best solution to the problem, but what systems need, nowadays, is a solution that can save project resources.
This chapter introduces lightweight Spring modules, namely and Spring Integration...