Actually, Spring Integration May Be My Favorite Spring Project

Greg L. Turnquist
6 min readApr 1, 2023

While Spring Security is wickedly powerful and essential for securing Java applications, there’s another Spring project that is equally deserving of praise and admiration: Spring Integration.

Spring Integration is a lightweight framework that allows developers to build complex, scalable, and extensible systems by connecting components using a messaging paradigm.

If you’re wondering why this little ole’ toolkit originally built by still-active Spring veteran Mark Fisher has grown to such huge…

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Greg L. Turnquist

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