In this article, Joshua Long introduces the readers to Spring Integration, an extension of the Spring framework supporting the Enterprise Integration Patterns. After a short introduction into Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), the article presents an example of the integration between an email application and a blogger one.
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Joshua’s integration example allows one to publish an email containing a blog post to a certain address where it is automatically processed and published on the blog. The example focuses on the Spring Integration’s XML configuration which directs the framework to do the messaging job between the two applications.