Preface

Software has been an integral part of enterprises and a key contributor to their growth. Be it analytics, user experience, social marketing, decision support systems, or any other functional domain, software has been used to aid smooth and efficient functioning. Enterprises start small and grow over a period of time, and so does their software dependency. Enterprise applications are developed over a period of time. The following aspects pose certain challenges while dealing with enterprise software:

Integration of these modules either inside organizations or with external partners is inherently complex, requiring integration of heterogeneous endpoints. This is the kind of scenario that Enterprise Application Integration tries to address. Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) is a collection of standard enterprise challenges and how can they be handled. Spring Integration is one of the implementations of the EIP that provides many off-the-shelf components recommended by EIP.