The UDP and TCP channel adapters introduced in Spring Integration 2.0 Milestone 3 provide lightweight communication either between two or more Spring Integration applications, or between a Spring Integration application and some other platform.

Following on from Oleg's blog about the Loan Broker, I use the same example to show how to use the new UDP adapters available with M3. Assume that the CEO of the Loan Broker company has heard complaints from some customers that several banks are quoting outrageous rates. He asks the CIO if he can monitor the quotes coming back from the banks for a…

The latest version of SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) is now available. STS is the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring, Groovy and Grails powered enterprise applications. The new version (2.3.2) is now available for download and provides mostly fixes for some minor bugs and some performance improvements.

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Now is a great time to start working with STS and please use the community forum to give your feedback and ask questions.

The 3rd development milestone for Spring Integration 2.0 was released last week (download it here).

If you have read Oleg's recent blog, you already know that we have started working on a new reference sample implementation based on the "Loan Broker" example that plays a significant role in Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf's Enterprise Integration Patterns book.

I just wanted to post a brief blog listing a few of the other new additions and improvements in this release. You can expect to see more detailed blog entries covering a few of these features over the next couple weeks. I'm including some…

We are pleased to announce the first installment of the 'Loan Broker' Reference Implementation. 'Loan Broker' concept has become a de-facto reference domain for showcasing Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) - by Gregor Hohpe ad Bobby Woolf, and this installment of the Loan Broker RI demonstrates how Enterprise Integration Patterns are realized and applied using Spring Integration (SI) framework.

Introduction

At the core of EIP architecture are the very simple yet powerful concepts of Pipes and Filters and Message. Endpoints (Filters) are connected with one another via Channels (Pipes). The producing endpoint sends Message to the Channel and the Message is retrieved by the Consuming endpoint.  This architecture is meant to define various mechanisms that describe How information is exchanged between the endpoints, without any awareness of What those endpoints are or What information they are exchanging, thus providing for a very …

Dear Spring Community,

The latest version of SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) is now available. STS is the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring, Groovy and Grails powered enterprise applications. The new version (2.3.1) is now available for download and uses the latest Eclipse 3.5.2 base. Other features include

In the very near future, SpringSource tc Server 2.0™ will be released including a new Spring Edition, representing some big changes for the product and a big step ahead for web application development. This also continues SpringSource's commitment to tc Server being a 100% compatible drop-in replacement for Apache Tomcat that provides the best place to build and run your Spring applications and is ideally suited for modern virtual environments.

Here in the Spring team, we are currently preparing for a busy next week: We have a three-day team meeting coming up from March 15th to 17th, immediately followed by the SpringSource S2G Forum Munich on Thursday, March 18th (overview, agenda, registration).

With the introduction of the security schema in Spring Security 2, it became much easier to get a simple secured application up and running. In older versions, users had to declare and wire-up all the implementation beans individually, resulting in large and complicated Spring application context files which were difficult to understand and maintain. There was a pretty steep learning curve and I can still remember that it took me some time to get my head round it all when I started working on the project (then Acegi Security), back in 2004. On the positive side, this exposure to the basic…