There are many ways to skin a cat. Many applications today rely on messaging (AMQP, JMS) to bridge the gap between disparate systems and data. Others rely on RPC (typically web-services, or REST). For a great many applications, however, file transfer is very much a way of life! There are several common ways of supporting it, but three of the most common are using a shared mount or folder, using a FTP server, and - for more secure exchanges - using SSH (or SFTP). While it's common knowledge that Spring has always provided first-class support for messaging (JMS, AMQP) and RPC (there are far too…