From 77741507ed1dd2eb749bf83dfa74a673feb61497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gunnar Hillert Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:04:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Highlighted a few adapters, fixed some wording in README.md --- README.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3f2c3aaf..74547be9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Below is a short description of each category. ## Basic -This is a good place to get started. The samples here are technically motivated and demonstrate the bare minimum with regard to configuration and code to help you to get introduced to the basic concepts, API and configuration of Spring Integration. For example if you are looking for an answer on how to wire service-activator to a channel or how to apply Gateway to your message exchange or how to get started with using MAIL or XML the module, this would be the right place to find a relevant sample. The bottom line is that this is a good starting point. +This is a good place to get started. The samples here are technically motivated and demonstrate the bare minimum with regard to configuration and code to help you to get introduced to the basic concepts, API and configuration of Spring Integration. For example, if you are looking for an answer on how to wire a **Service Activator** to a **Channel** or how to apply a **Gateway** to your message exchange or how to get started with using the **MAIL** or **XML** module, this would be the right place to find a relevant sample. The bottom line is that this is a good starting point. * **control-bus** - demonstrates the functionality of the **Control Bus** * **feed** - demonstrates the functionality of the **Feed Adapter** (RSS/ATOM) @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ This is a good place to get started. The samples here are technically motivated ## Intermediate -This category targets developers who are already familiar with the Spring Integration framework (past getting started), but need some more guidance while resolving more advanced technical problems that you have to deal with when switching to a Messaging architecture. For example, if you are looking for an answer on how to handle errors in various scenarios, or how to properly configure an Aggregator for the situations where some messages might not ever arrive for aggregation, or any other issue that goes beyond a basic understanding and configuration of a particular component to address "what else you can do?" types of problems, this would be the right place to find relevant samples. +This category targets developers who are already more familiar with the Spring Integration framework (past getting started), but need some more guidance while resolving more advanced technical problems that you have to deal with when switching to a Messaging architecture. For example, if you are looking for an answer on how to handle errors in various scenarios, or how to properly configure an **Aggregator** for the situations where some messages might not ever arrive for aggregation, or any other issue that goes beyond a basic understanding and configuration of a particular component to address "what else you can do?" types of problems, this would be the right place to find relevant examples. * **async-gateway** - Example shows usage of an **Asynchronous Gateway** * **errorhandling** - Demonstrates basic **Error Handling** capabilities of Spring Integration @@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ This category targets developers who are already familiar with the Spring Integr ## Advanced -This category targets advanced developers who are quite familiar with the Spring Integration framework but looking to address a specific custom need by extending from the Spring Integration public API. For example, if you are looking for samples showing you how to implement a custom Channel or Consumer (event-based or polling-based), or you are trying to figure out what is the most appropriate way to implement a custom BeanParser on top of the Spring Integration BeanParser hierarchy when implementing a custom namespace, this would be the right place to look. Here you can also find samples that will help you with adapter development. Spring Integration comes with an extensive library of adapters that allow you to connect remote systems with the Spring Integration messaging framework. However you might have a need to integrate with a system for which the core framework does not provide an adapter, so you have to implement your own. This category would include samples showing you how to implement various adapters. +This category targets advanced developers who are quite familiar with Spring Integration but are looking to address a specific custom need by extending the Spring Integration public API. For example, if you are looking for samples showing how to implement a custom **Channel** or **Consumer** (event-based or polling-based), or you are trying to figure out what is the most appropriate way to implement a custom **BeanParser** on top of the Spring Integration BeanParser hierarchy when implementing a custom namespace, this would be the right place to look. Here you can also find samples that will help you with adapter development. Spring Integration comes with an extensive library of adapters that allow you to connect remote systems with the Spring Integration messaging framework. However you might have a need to integrate with a system for which the core framework does not provide an adapter, so you have to implement your own. This category would include samples showing you how to implement various adapters. * **advanced-testing-examples** - Example test cases that show advanced techniques to test Spring Integration applications ## Applications -This category targets developers and architects who have a good understanding of Message-driven architecture and Enterprise Integration Patterns, and an above average understanding of Spring and Spring integration and who are looking for samples that address a particular business problem. In other words, the emphasis of samples in this category is 'business use cases' and how they can be solved via a Messaging architecture and Spring Integration in particular. For example, if you are interested to see how a Loan Broker process or Travel Agent process could be implemented and automated via Spring Integration, this would be the right place to find these types of samples. +This category targets developers and architects who have a good understanding of Message-Driven architecture and Enterprise Integration Patterns, and have an above average understanding of Spring and Spring integration and who are looking for samples that address a particular business problem. In other words, the emphasis of samples in this category is '**business use cases**' and how they can be solved via a Messaging architecture and Spring Integration in particular. For example, if you are interested to see how a Loan Broker process or Travel Agent process could be implemented and automated via Spring Integration, this would be the right place to find these types of samples. * **cafe** - Emulates a simple operation of a coffee shop combining various Spring Integration adapters (Including **Router** and **Splitter**) see [Appendix A of the reference documentation](http://static.springsource.org/spring-integration/docs/latest-ga/reference/html/samples.html) for more details * **loan-broker** - Simulates a simple banking application (Uses **Gateway**, **Chain**, **Header Enricher**, **Recipient List Router**, **Aggregator**) see [Appendix A of the reference documentation](http://static.springsource.org/spring-integration/docs/latest-ga/reference/html/samples.html) for more details