Why Spring Integration?
Spring Integration is an open source effort to address integration challenges; it is based on the Spring Framework, which is the most widely used Java-based framework in organizations. It introduces the simple POJO-based programming model to support standard integration patterns.
It's lightweight; all it needs is couple of jars for which Maven targets are readily available. A quick comparison shows that the Service Mix download is around 55 MB while Spring Integration is just 14 MB in size.
- Spring Integration is just a set of standard Java libraries; the solution gets deployed in the application instead of that application getting deployed in some containers, as in the case of SM and Mule.
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