Chapter 11. Filesystem integration
This chapter covers
The book Enterprise Integration Patterns defines four basic integration styles: file transfer, shared database, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and messaging. This chapter deals with file-based integration. No different from the other integration options, file-based integration is all about getting information from one system into another. In file-based integration, this is accomplished by one system writing to disk and another reading from it. The particular details of the implementation (for example, whether both systems stream to the same large file, or multiple files are being moved around) aren’t part of the definition. After reading this chapter, you’ll have a solid understanding of the details of file-based integration and how to implement it cleanly using Spring Integration’s file handling support.