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Channels are an integral part of any Spring Integration application. There are many channels to choose from. Understanding the basic channel types (subscribable and pollable) is essential to any Spring Integration developer. In this lab, you explore the basic channel types and see the default channel at work. Specifically, in this lab you will: Create a new Spring Integration Maven Project Define the Spring configuration file. Define a Java SE class for running/testing your Spring Integration components. Create and test a subscribable channel. Create and test a pollable channel. Create and test the default Spring Integration channel – the direct channel

Adapters are endpoints that connect a message channel to an external system or technology. Adapters take content from outside of SI and bring it in as messages into SI channels or take SI messages and deposit their content to an external system. Specifically, in this lab you will: Create and test an inbound file adap Create and test an outbound file adapter.

Filters allow, on the basis of a message’s content or metadata (in the message header), a message to pass from one channel to the next or reject and discard the message from the system – that is, not allowing the rejected message into the next channel.  Not all messages are of interest. That is, there is often a need to filter out some messages that enter a channel. Applications may only want to get messages formatted in a certain way (XML or JSON). Applications may only be interested in certain types of data (new sales messages but not messages about shipments). Other application may be interested in messages with certain message headers (for example when a message was created – only wanting to look at messages created after 5pm). In this lab, you explore Spring Integration (SI) filters to examine messages in a channel and accept those of interest and discard the others. Specifically, in this lab you will: Implement the SI MessageSelector interface and configure an SI filter. Explore

XML is popular way to deliver data. However, Java applications prefer to work with the data in object form. A built-in SI transformer provides the ability to convert an XML payload message into a message containing a Java object holding the data of the XML message. This process is called unmarshalling transformation (an opposite process – going from Java object to XML payload also exists and that is called marshalling). Under the covers, the unmarshalling transformer uses JAXB technology to perform the XML to object work. In this portion of the lab, you explore the use of a SI unmarshalling transformer. We will use JAXB here to marshalling and un-marshalling.

As with filters and many other SI components, you can create your own custom transformer. When the transformation is particularly complex or when you need to transform to / from a type that Spring does not know about, you will find custom transformation the route to take. In this next step, you create a custom transformer – one that transforms the string payload of the source message to a pig Latin translation of the string in the target message. In this step, you also see the use of annotations to configure your transformer. SI (and all of Spring) allows the use of annotations in your Java code to simplify the configuration of components and reduce the amount of XML associated to your application. While annotations were not used in the prior labs (like the filter lab), you will find that SI comes with a number of annotations that can be used in place of XML for the configuration of just about any SI component. Examine and annotate the Transformer class. A class containing the Pig Lati

No, Spring does not have Autobots, but the concept – turn something from one thing to another thing – is provided for in Spring Integration. Spring Integration (SI) transformers turn one type of message into another. In the world of integration, data providers and data consumers don’t always speak the same language. So transformers provide SI applications the means to convert messages between formats to facilitate non-homogeneous message exchange. For example, a producer may provide information in XML format. It is the data your application needs, but it would like that data in JSON form. A SI transformer can perform that message conversion. In this lab, you explore several types of SI transformers – some provided by SI out of the box. As you have learned with other SI components, you can also create your own custom transformer. Specifically, in this lab you will: Configure and use a message payload transformer. Define a custom transformer. Explore the use of annotations to reduce SI c

Scenario – Transform String Messages In the first part of this lab, you some simple string message to string message transformers. That is, these transformers take a message with string payload from a channel (called the source message in SI), change the string payload of a message, and put a message with the altered string into another channel (called the target message in SI). These simple examples will help you understand the basic configuration of a transformer and allow you to see how to create your own custom transformer.

SI also comes with a ready-made validating filter. When dealing with XML messages that are supposed to conform to an XML schema, it is often helpful to weed out XML messages that do not conform to the schema. Using SI’s built-in validating filter, all you have to do is specify the location of the appropriate schema (.xsd) file and XML messages are filtered out of a channel when they do not align with the schema definition. Add a validating filter. By this point in the tutorials, you have started to work enough with SI applications and SI components to start to get a feel for how they are configured and how the framework works. So it is time to put some of those skills to the test. Replace the XPath filter with a validating filter to accept only those XML shiporder messages that comply with the schema you saw in step 8.1. The basic template is shown below. You need to supply the in and out message channels along with the location of the schema file it is to use to do the filtering. spri

XML is popular in many messaging systems to include Spring Integration. XML describes the data while also providing the data. When dealing with many messages, it can be inconvenient to convert the XML messages to objects or even strings and parse the data for relevant messages. Spring Integration already comes with a built-in XPath filter that allows you to define a filter with an XPath expression to select only messages of interest. You will learn more about transforms in an upcoming tutorial. There are many types of transformer message endpoints. Spring provides one called a file-to-string transformer. This transformer turns a file message (that is a SI message with a file as its payload) into a string message (a SI message with a string as its payload). The string that fills the resulting message is from the contents of the file. Why is this important? In order for an XPath filter to accept or reject the XML in a message, it must first be able to access the XML contents rather than

Filters allow, on the basis of a message’s content or metadata (in the message header), a message to pass from one channel to the next or reject and discard the message from the system – that is, not allowing the rejected message into the next channel.  Not all messages are of interest. That is, there is often a need to filter out some messages that enter a channel. Applications may only want to get messages formatted in a certain way (XML or JSON). Applications may only be interested in certain types of data (new sales messages but not messages about shipments). Other application may be interested in messages with certain message headers (for example when a message was created – only wanting to look at messages created after 5pm). In this lab, you explore Spring Integration (SI) filters to examine messages in a channel and accept those of interest and discard the others. Specifically, in this lab you will: Implement the SI MessageSelector interface and configure an SI filter. Explore

We will Create and test an inbound file adapter. Create and test an outbound file adapter\ Here we will only be using  file-inbound-channel-adapter and file-inbound-outbound-channel-adapter   channels in place of  std-in-channel-adapder and stdout-channel-adapter  which we have used in previous labs(Channel labs) spring-integration-file-outbound-channel-adapter.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:int="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration" xmlns:int-file="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/file" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:int-stream="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/stream" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration http://ww