Part 3. Integrating systems

In part 3, we’ll focus on how to use Spring Integration to enable communication and data exchange between your Spring applications and other systems.

Chapter 8 shows you how to utilize XML standard data interchange formats in your Spring Integration messages, and then chapter 9 illustrates how you can leverage JMS messaging interfaces. Email communication is addressed in chapter 10, and using filesystems for data exchange with other applications is covered in chapter 11. Chapter 12 explains how to exploit web services with Spring Integration. Finally, chapter 13 covers adapters for XMPP instant messaging to enable chat services and presence notifications, as well as support for Twitter search, timelines, status updates, mentions, and direct messages.

Now let’s see how we can put all these pieces together to extend the breadth and scope of your Spring applications using important technologies such as XML, JMS, mail, filesystems, web services, and more.