Spring Integration in Action

Chapter 5. Getting down to business

 

This chapter covers

• Achieving separation of concerns
• Domain-driven transformations and message-driven services
• Interceptors and gateways
• Chaining endpoints

 

In the preceding chapters, you were introduced to the big picture of Spring Integration. You learned about the three key components of the framework: message, message channel, and message endpoint. Hopefully, you now have a greater appreciation of how those three components promote loose coupling. Now it’s time to focus on a related concept: separation of concerns. In this chapter we explore how Spring Integration enables a clean separation of integration concerns from the core business logic of an application.

Separation of concerns is a well-established ...