Pro Spring Integration

Pro Spring Integration is an authoritative book from the experts that guides you through the vast world of enterprise application integration (EAI) and application of the Spring Integration framework towards solving integration problems. The book is:

• An introduction to the concepts of enterprise application integration
• A reference on building event-driven applications using Spring Integration
• A guide to solving common integration problems using Spring Integration

What makes this book unique is its coverage of contemporary technologies and real-world information, with a focus on common problems that users are likely to confront. This book zeroes in on extending the Spring Integration framework to meet your custom integration demands.

As Spring Integration is an extension of the Spring programming model, it builds on the Spring Framework's existing support for enterprise integration. This book will take you through all aspects of this relationship and show you how to get the most out of your Spring applications, where integration is a consideration. It discusses simple messaging within Spring-based applications and integration with external systems via simple adapters. Those adapters provide a higher-level of abstraction over Spring's support for remoting, messaging, and scheduling, all of which receives coverage in this book.

What you’ll learn

• Introduces the wide world of Spring Integration with an overview of application integration, the patterns involved and then quickly moving into applications
• How to identify integration problems that are best solved using Spring Integration and enterprise application integration (EAI)
• Discover and apply EAI patterns and related architectural concepts like staged event driven architectures (SEDA)
• Explore the concepts behind message-oriented middleware (MOM)
• How to interface with external systems using Spring Integration
• Extend the Spring Integration stack with custom adapters, endpoints, and more
• What are the next steps to production with expert insight into error handling, monitoring, management, and scaling the enterprise Java application

Who this book is for

This book is for any developer looking for a more natural way to build event-driven applications using familiar Spring idioms and techniques. The book is also geared towards architects seeking to better their applications and increase productivity in their developers.

About the Authors

Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate for SpringSource, an editor for InfoQ.com, and author/co-author of many works (including Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition, published by Apress). Josh has spoken at numerous industry conferences, including Geecon, TheServerSide Java Symposium, SpringOne, OSCON, JavaZone, Devoxx, JAX, and Java2Days. When he’s not hacking on Spring Integration and other open-source code, he can be found at the local Java user group, a coffee shop, or the airport. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, big data, business process management, grid processing, rich Internet applications, mobile computing, and so-called "smart systems".

Dr. Mark Lui received his doctorate in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and worked as a research scientist in the semiconductor industry for 11 years. He transitioned into the software industry, consulting in the areas of enterprise application integration, business process monitoring, and enterprise information integration, as well as general enterprise Java development. Mark is a senior software engineer at Shopzilla. He has experience using commercial-based solutions, such as webMethods and WebLogic, in addition to open-source projects such as the Spring Framework, Spring Integration, and ActiveMQ.

Mario Gray is an engineer with more than a decade of experience in systems integration, systems administration, game programming, and highly available enterprise architectures. He is ever-vigilant of force-multiplying technologies to better enable businesses. He has developed countless systems, including CRMs, market data ticker plants, and highly available web applications, using leading open-source enterprise Java frameworks and tools. Mario has a record of successfully leveraging open source frameworks to better serve businesses. He lives in the city of Chandler, Arizona, with his wife, Fumiko, and his daughter, Makani. Outside of his career, he enjoys recreational sports, exercise, and family activities.

Andy Chan was born in Hong Kong and was first introduced to computer programming using Applesoft BASIC on the Apple II computer when he was 5 years old. After he graduated from the University of California, Irvine, in information and computer science, he started his early career as a Windows NT software/driver developer using C/C++. He switched to the Java platform in the late 1990s, and has been using Java to develop complex business applications. With more than 15 years of professional experience developing large-scale enterprise software systems, he works at Shopzilla as a software architect. Andy’s current interest is dealing with big data using Hadoop and HBase. He can be found in the Los Angeles Hadoop Users Group (LA-HUG) and the Santa Monica Java Users Group (SM-JUG).