Plumbing your Enterprise application with Spring Integration

Gregor Hohpe described a set of patterns useful to integrate loosely coupled enterprise applications in his book Patterns of Enterprise Application Integration.

Spring Integration is a product in the Spring Portfolio that allows developers to introduce those patterns in applications rather than have applications be deployed to an ESB to integrate them. This allows for precise and fine-grained application of the integration patterns to existing applications, whether those be batch-based, web-based or even standalone applications.

Spring Integration project follows the good practices and natural programming model typical to Spring; it uses well designed object orientation, enables test-driven development, emphasizes on productivity and quality within the application architecture.

This presentation gives an overview of Spring Integration. After having introduced some of the most frequently used enterprise integration patterns we will show the benefits of using the application-centric approach specific to Spring Integration in a live demo.

Alef Arendsen  Interface21 Alef Arendsen is CTO van Interface21 NL; het bedrijf wat in Nederland en wereldwijd diensten verleend rondom het Spring Framework. Met behulp van de oorspronkelijke ontwikkelaars (zoals Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller en Colin Sampaleanu) kan Interface21 ervoor zorgen dat u thuis raakt in de wereld van Spring en de overige technologien die u nodig heeft om op J2EE platform een succesvolle applicatie bouwen. Alef geeft in Nederland en daarbuiten workshops en trainingsessies en verleend daarnaast advies omtrent het succesvol gebruik van J2EE, Spring en andere technologien.

Iwein Fuld  Xebia Iwein Fuld is a committer on the Spring Integration framework and one of the authors of Spring Integration in Action (Manning). He works as a consultant for Xebia Netherlands where he specializes in distributed agile development and messaging.