Foreword

Integration is currently a hot topic. We live in an increasingly asynchronous world in which we need to interact with a bewildering range of systems, so our software applications need to support a variety of conversation patterns with disparate collaborators.

Software that helps developers tackle this complexity is crucial. In the 2000s, Struts, Spring, and Hibernate replaced in-house web MVC, configuration, and persistence code with superior, battle-tested, and well-documented open source code. Similarly today, integration is core to so many applications that we need quality, generic infrastructure in place of ad hoc solutions.

Spring Integration is a great choice to address these infrastructure requirements. Too many open source ...

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