Spring Integration

Abstract

In this chapter, you will learn the principles behind enterprise application integration (EAI), used by many modern applications to decouple dependencies between components. The Spring Framework provides a powerful and extensible framework called Spring Integration. Spring Integration provides the same level of decoupling for disparate systems and data that the core Spring Framework provides for components within an application. This chapter aims to give you all the required knowledge to understand the patterns involved in EAI to understand what an enterprise service bus (ESB) is and—ultimately—how to build solutions using Spring Integration. If you’ve used an EAI server or an ESB, you’ll find that Spring Integration is markedly simpler than anything you’re likely to have used before.