by Michael Fanous | Feb 25, 2016 | Eclipse, Java
As Java developers, we are lucky to have a wide selection of open source tools to help us more efficiently and effectively write applications. Tools, frameworks, and libraries take care of common functionality such as security, logging, database...
by Michael Fanous | Jan 14, 2016 | Eclipse, Java, Spring Framework
Spring Batch is an open source batch processing framework that can be a great alternative to the heavyweight and proprietary IBM WebSphere Batch system. However, it can be a little tricky to get up and running. Before writing your first Spring Batch job, you may want...
by Jim White | Sep 30, 2014 | Eclipse, Java, Spring Framework
As we near the end of this eight-part tutorial series on Spring Integration (SI), the topic of this seventh installment is on service activators. The name of this SI message endpoint aptly defines what it does. A service activator is an SI component that triggers...
by Jim White | Sep 25, 2014 | Eclipse, Java, Spring Framework
Spring Integration enrichers are really just a special type of transformer (see previous post in this series). Enrichers take a message from a channel and enhance it by adding information to its header or payload. Thus, an enricher is a transformer that only adds...
by Jim White | Aug 26, 2014 | Eclipse, Java, Spring Framework
Part 5 – ROUTERS In this installment of our Spring Integration tutorial, we examine routers. Routers distribute messages to one or more message channels. Some routers (content routers) examine the message payload or headers in order to select a particular...
by Jim White | Aug 14, 2014 | Eclipse, Java, Spring Framework
Part 4 – Transformers We continue our Spring Integration tutorial and exploration of Spring Integration (SI) message endpoints today with a look at transformers. Transformers take a message from a channel and creates a new message containing converted payload...
