Byte Musings

In this post, I'm going to share my experience in using Spring Integration for a bulk processing task. This was the first time I was using Spring Integration and it did not disappoint me. It was pretty robust in terms of error handling and definitely scalable. Disclaimer: The actual task being performed has been modified into a fictitious e – commerce domain task, since I cannot reveal the original task which is customer specific and confidential. However, the nature of the task in terms of processing of clob and xml remain the same and the complexity of the original task has been retained. Also, the views posted on this post are strictly personal. Objective: The objective is to work upon customer information from an ecommerce application and process it and save it into database as clob data. The task is to perform data processing by reading xml from a file in the file system and then store it as clob into a table. Following is the high level of tasks required t...

In this blog post and the subsequent post, I'm going to write about Spring Integration and also share my experience in using Spring Integration in a live project. To begin with, I will provide a brief introduction to Spring Integration framework and in the next post I will show how to apply it. Much of the content of this post is taken from the Spring Integration official website Spring Integration Reference What is Spring Integration? Spring  Integration   is a Spring driven framework which supports message driven architecture and provides routing, transformation of messages and implements the common Enterprise Integration patterns, more importantly the "Pipes and Filters" pattern. What is Pipes and Filter Pattern? This is an Enterprise Integration pattern, which is applied, if multiple processing units are required to process a message and we need to increase reuse and also achieve decoupling. The "filters" represent any component that is...