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Enterprise Integration Patterns with Spring - Part I

In the first-part of this two-part workshop, Mark will focus on the essentials of Enterprise Integration with Spring. First, he will take a whirlwind tour of Spring's enterprise integration support libraries. Next, he will discuss the “big picture” of an event-driven architecture based on messaging with an overview of key enterprise integration patterns. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Spring's integration capabilities and an appreciation for the benefits of message-driven architecture, ready to put that into practice in Part II.

Producing high-quality, testable code while remaining agile requires loosely-coupled, highly-cohesive components that are not tied to any particular infrastructure - in other words: separation of concerns. When building web applications, MVC frameworks provide an environment for achieving separation of web-specific concerns (such as HTTP requests) from an application's business logic. However, an enterprise Service Oriented Architecture may require many types of integration beyond the web-tier such that maintaining separation of concerns can become a significant challenge. Spring offers assistance with inversion of control, aspect-oriented programming, and a wide variety of service abstractions, but learning how to put the pieces together may not be immediately obvious. This session teaches how to put the pieces together to form an event-driven architecture.

Spring support libraries covered:

  • Remoting
  • JMX
  • Messaging
  • Scheduling
  • Mail

Enterprise Integration patterns discussed:

  • Message Channel
  • Message Endpoint
  • Message Router
  • Message Translator

Mark Fisher

About Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher is an engineer at Pivotal and has been a member of the Spring team for over 7 years. Currently he co-leads Spring XD and also manages the group responsible for Spring Integration, Spring Batch, and Spring AMQP. Mark has provided consulting services for dozens of clients and has trained hundreds of developers how to use the Spring Framework and related projects effectively. He speaks regularly at conferences and user groups in America and Europe and is one of the authors of Spring Integration in Action, published by Manning in 2012.

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