Spring Book - Chapter 6 - Enterprise Integration

Spring’s core support includes its capability of configuring application, enterprise integration, its testing capabilities and data access methodologies. In Chapter 4, I introduced you to various configuration styles available in Spring. In Chapter 5, I continued on to explain the various simplifications that you can do in your application. In this Chapter I will be covering enterprise integration which is one of the core support provided by the spring framework in detail.

I always like to call an application enterprise. For an application to be called enterprise, it needs to have enterprise components/objects on which it is built. I call an object enterprise when it has capability to handle transactions, capable of existing in a secured environment, has capability to integrate with other system, and so forth.

Using Spring framework, you can make simple POJOs getting transformed into what I call as enterprise objects, with minimal involvement of developers. Developers spend more time writing the actual business logic and the Spring container does all the magic behind the scenes.

Spring framework provides comprehensive infrastructural support for what we call an enterprise application. One such important component in any enterprise application is its capability to integrate. Spring handles plumbing involved in integrating various components in an enterprise application so that you can focus on actual business logic/business use case. Integrating enterprise application can be done in many ways. Each way has its own advantages and disadvantages. We will be discussing the various enterprise integration styles available in some detail in subsequent sections and will also cover the support rendered by Spring to achieve these integration styles in your enterprise application.

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Chapter 6: Enterprise Integration