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Essential Spring Integration components

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Essential Spring Integration components

- [Instructor] Let's take an overview of Essential Spring Integration components. We will also explore some application design patterns that Spring Integration upholds. The most fundamental component of any messaging framework, including of course, Spring Integration, but also any homegrown or language specialized framework, is the message itself. We should think of a message as a discreet unit of information exchanged by participants in the business logic of an application. In Spring Integration, the message channel is the component that is responsible for transmitting messages. A channel can be compared to a conduit, or a pathway, or a pipe. The essential point is that when we have components of an application that need to share information, it is the channel that transmits the information in the form of a message. An endpoint is made up of one or more components. And it manages message delivery in a way that meets the…

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