Spring Integration Essentials: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers | Learn Spring Integration for Enterprise Applications | Perfect for API Development & Microservices Architecture

Book Review – Spring Integration EssentialsAuthor: Chandan Pandey, Pages: ~ 175My take on “Spring Integration Essentials” can be condensed, at the very least, to a quick how-to for the configuration of Java Message Service (JMS) on the Client Side. JMS is foremost a huge API for the formal communication known as messaging between computers (lightweight messaging and declarative adapters). Spring Integration extends Spring programming to support various Enterprise Integration Patterns (including JMS). This book, Spring Integration Essentials is very much a how-to with examples for much of the work of Integrating JMS into a Spring Application.I would be the first to admit that Grokking the entirety of the Enterprise Integration Patterns is an inherently difficult task. That building out an ESB, MessageQue and various data support services is only the tip of the alphabet of technology soup that must be mastered (all technologies we are building out here at work this year). All necessary to support higher levels of abstraction that current architectures require. Somewhere near the core of all this work is gaining experience and expertise in Messaging Systems, Messaging Channels, Message Construction, Message Routing, Message Transformation and Messaging Endpoints (and many others). If this is the work at hand for you (in your Spring application), then this book will help you with your understanding of these topics.There are roughly 10 chapters with an End-to-End example project in the last chapter. This last chapter is succinct, brief and rapidly moves through examples for Ingesting data, Aggregating feeds, Transforming feeds into appropriate formats and Integrating data from a database. Finally the example project shows sending mail, and putting a message on the JMS Queue.I wouldn’t think twice about picking up this book if this is where your Spring work is. You are very likely to appreciate the code examples and concepts – you’ll just probably want more! And more, as the author states, is as close as http://projects.spring.io/spring-integration/, which this book very nicely complements.