1. Styles of Application Integration
Using Spring
Bruce Snyder, Senior Software Engineer, SpringSource/VMware
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2. Integrations Are About Coupling
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3. Where Coupling Exists, Concerns Arise
• Tight coupling is easy
• Loose coupling can be difficult
• Tight coupling causes issues in the long run
• Loose coupling pays off in the long run
• Integrations are usually tightly coupled
• Integrations should be loosely coupled
• Integrations are commonly addressed using commands
• Integrations should be addressed using events
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4. What is Coupling?
“... the degree to which each program module relies
on each one of the other modules”
(Wikipedia.com)
• Given two lines of code, A and B, they are coupled when B
must change behavior only because A changed
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5. Characteristics Tight Coupling
• Components are highly dependent upon one another
• Components are directly linked
• Changes in one component cause a ripple effect
• Less reusability
• More difficult to maintain
• Does not handle unforeseen change well
• Examples
– Clients designed to interact only with specific systems
– Use of proprietary APIs or commands for interaction
– Components designed to work specifically with other
components
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6. Characteristics of Loose Coupling
• Components have little or no knowledge of one another
• Components are not directly linked to one another
• Changes in one component do not affect other components
• Increased reusability
• Easier to maintain
• More easily handles unforeseen changes
• Examples
– Dependence upon interfaces instead of concrete classes
– Use of DI encourages looser coupling
– A design using a level of indirection
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7. Tight Coupling is Easy
• App design with tight coupling is more widely understood
• App development with tight coupling requires less time
• Debugging a tightly coupled app is easier
• Benefits of tight coupling are seen immediately
• Tightly coupled prototypes commonly live on
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8. Loose Coupling is Difficult
• App design with loose coupling is not widely understood
• App development with loosely coupling requires more
thought and more time
• Debugging loosely coupled apps is different
• Benefits of loose coupling are only seen over time
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9. Integrations and Coupling
• But it’s easy to write a point-to-point, one-off piece of code
for integration!
• Too many disadvantages
– Difficult to maintain
– No reusability
– Every integration is unique
– Bites you over time
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10. Integrations and Coupling
• But designing integrations to be loosely coupled requires
too much work!
• With the right knowledge and preparation, it doesn’t need
to be this way
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11. Commands vs. Events
• Commands are not natural
– Verify credit card
• Commands are too specific
• Events are natural
– Order received
• Events are more broad
• Events are what happen in the real world
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12. Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP)
http://enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/
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13. Spring Integration
• Provides both concurrency and messaging
– Message Endpoints
• Connections between services
– Channel Adapters
• Adapter between application and message broker
– Messaging Gateways
• Provides uni-directional or bi-directional messaging
– Service Activators
• Invokes a services based on an incoming message
– Routers
• Determines where to dispatch a message
– Splitters and Aggregators
• Breaks up a message and reassembles it after processing
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14. Spring Integration
• Supports
– AMQP
– Email
– File system
– Gemfire
– JMS
– JMX
– MongoDB
– Redis
– Spring Batch
– Testing
– Web Services
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15. Spring Integration
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16. Spring Integration
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17. Spring Integration
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18. Spring Integration
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19. Spring Integration
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20. Spring Integration
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21. Spring Integration
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22. Spring Integration
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23. Spring Integration
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24. Spring Integration
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25. Types of Integration
• Intra-application integration
• Inter-application integration
• External system integration
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26. Typical Application Layers
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27. Intra-Application Integration
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28. Spring Integration Config
<int:gateway id="sender"
service-interface="org.bsnyder.spring.integration.simple.Sender"/>
<int:channel id="orderReceived"/>
<int:service-activator input-channel="orderReceived" ref="receiver"
method="receive" />
<bean id="receiver" class="org.bsnyder.spring.integration.simple.Receiver"/>
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29. Intra-Application Integration
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30. Spring Integration Config
<int:gateway id="sender"
service-interface="org.bsnyder.spring.integration.appa.Sender"/>
<channel id="orderReceived" />
<amqp:outbound-channel-adapter channel="orderReceived"
exchange-name="order.received.exchange"
routing-key="order.received.binding"
amqp-template="amqpTemplate" />
<rabbit:connection-factory id="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:template id="amqpTemplate" connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:admin connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:queue name="order.received.queue" />
<rabbit:direct-exchange name="order.received.exchange">
<rabbit:bindings>
<rabbit:binding queue="order.received.queue" key="order.received.binding" />
</rabbit:bindings>
</rabbit:direct-exchange>
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31. Spring Integration Config
<amqp:inbound-channel-adapter channel="orderReceived"
queue-names="order.received.queue"
connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<int:service-activator input-channel="orderReceived" ref="receiver"
method="receive" />
<bean id="receiver" class="org.bsnyder.spring.integration.appa.Receiver"/>
<rabbit:connection-factory id="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:template id="amqpTemplate" connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:admin connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:queue name="order.received.queue" />
<rabbit:direct-exchange name="order.received.exchange">
<rabbit:bindings>
<rabbit:binding queue="order.received.queue" key="order.received.binding" />
</rabbit:bindings>
</rabbit:direct-exchange>
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33. Inter-Application Integration
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34. Inter-Application Integration
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35. Spring Integration Config
<int:gateway id="sender"
service-interface="org.bsnyder.spring.integration.appa.Sender"/>
<channel id="orderReceived" />
<amqp:outbound-channel-adapter channel="orderReceived"
exchange-name="order.received.exchange"
routing-key="order.received.binding"
amqp-template="amqpTemplate" />
<rabbit:connection-factory id="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:template id="amqpTemplate" connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:admin connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:queue name="order.received.queue" />
<rabbit:direct-exchange name="order.received.exchange">
<rabbit:bindings>
<rabbit:binding queue="order.received.queue" key="order.received.binding" />
</rabbit:bindings>
</rabbit:direct-exchange>
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36. Spring Integration Config
<amqp:inbound-channel-adapter channel="orderReceived"
queue-names="order.received.queue"
connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<int:service-activator input-channel="orderReceived" ref="receiver"
method="receive" />
<bean id="receiver" class="org.bsnyder.spring.integration.appb.Receiver"/>
<rabbit:connection-factory id="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:template id="amqpTemplate" connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:admin connection-factory="connectionFactory" />
<rabbit:queue name="order.received.queue" />
<rabbit:direct-exchange name="order.received.exchange">
<rabbit:bindings>
<rabbit:binding queue="order.received.queue" key="order.received.binding" />
</rabbit:bindings>
</rabbit:direct-exchange>
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38. External System Integration
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39. Spring Integration Config
<int:gateway id="sender"
service-interface="org.bsnyder.spring.integration.appa.Sender"/>
<bean id="ftpClientFactory"
class="org.springframework.integration.ftp.session.DefaultFtpSessionFactory"
p:host" value="localhost" p:username" value="${user}" p:password="$
{password}"/>
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<int:channel id="ftpChannel"/>
<int-ftp:outbound-channel-adapter id="ftpOutbound"
channel="ftpChannel"
remote-directory="/foo/bar/baz/"
client-factory="ftpClientFactory"/>
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40. Spring Integration Config
<int:channel id="ftpChannel">
<int:queue/>
</int:channel>
<bean id="ftpClientFactory"
class="org.springframework.integration.ftp.session.DefaultFtpSessionFactory"
p:host="localhost" p:username="${user}" p:password="${password}"/>
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<int-ftp:inbound-channel-adapter id="ftpInbound"
channel="ftpChannel" session-factory="ftpClientFactory"
filename-regex=".*.txt$" auto-create-local-directory="true"
delete-remote-files="false" remote-directory="/foo/bar/baz/"
local-directory="file:local-target-dir">
<int:poller fixed-rate="1000"/>
</int-ftp:inbound-channel-adapter>
<int:service-activator input-channel="ftpChannel" ref="receiver" method="receive" />
<bean id="receiver" class="org.bsnyder.spring.integration.appb.Receiver"/>
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42. Combined Integration
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43. Thank You!
Q&A
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