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Spring Integration Essentials

By : CHANDAN K PANDEY
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Spring Integration Essentials

By: CHANDAN K PANDEY

Overview of this book

This book is intended for developers who are either already involved with enterprise integration or planning to venture into the domain. Basic knowledge of Java and Spring is expected. For newer users, this book can be used to understand an integration scenario, what the challenges are, and how Spring Integration can be used to solve it. Prior experience of Spring Integration is not expected as this book will walk you through all the code examples.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Index

Why Spring Integration?

Spring Integration is an open source effort to address integration challenges; it is based on the Spring Framework, which is the most widely used Java-based framework in organizations. It introduces the simple POJO-based programming model to support standard integration patterns.

It's lightweight; all it needs is couple of jars for which Maven targets are readily available. A quick comparison shows that the Service Mix download is around 55 MB while Spring Integration is just 14 MB in size.

  • Spring Integration is just a set of standard Java libraries; the solution gets deployed in the application instead of that application getting deployed in some containers, as in the case of SM and Mule.

For enterprises that are already using Java and Spring, it eases the integration effort as it follows the same idioms and patterns of the Spring Framework.