Spring Integration provides support to access external HTTP services as well as to expose HTTP services to an external application.
Let's add a namespace and relevant Maven dependency so that Spring Integration's HTTP components are available for use in our application:
Namepace support can be added using the following code snippet:
<beans xmlns= "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi= "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:int= "http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration" xmlns:int-http= "http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/http" xsi:schemaLocation= "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/http http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/http/spring-integration...