Introduction to Spring Integration

Spring Integration was officially announced at The Spring Experience last year, and since then we have released 1.0. Attend this session to learn what Spring Integration is all about and how you can get started using it right away.

The session begins with an overview of the Enterprise Integration Patterns as catalogued in the highly influential book of the same name. The patterns provide a context for describing the various roles and integration concerns in an application based on messaging. We will then explore the Spring Integration API to see how it enables the development of Message-driven applications based on those patterns. Along the way, you will see how Spring Integration builds upon familiar Spring idioms such as interceptors, templates, and the strategy pattern. You will also see that Spring Integration maximizes reuse of the integration support in the Spring Framework core for everything from remoting and JMS to transactions and task execution. In addition to providing a robust, proven foundation, that also flattens the learning curve considerably for those already familiar with Spring.

Patterns we will discuss include Message Channel, Channel Adapter, Service Activator, Message Translator, Content-Based Router, Message Bus, and more. After attending this session, you will be able to start applying these patterns immediately within your Spring-based applications to solve many of the challenges of enterprise integration.

About Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher is an engineer within the SpringSource division of VMware and lead of the Spring Integration project. He is also a committer on the core Spring Framework and the Spring BlazeDS Integration project. Mark has provided consulting services for clients across numerous industries, and he has trained hundreds of developers how to use the Spring Framework and related projects effectively. Mark speaks regularly at conferences and user groups in America and Europe.

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