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 * **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
 * **loanshark** This extension to the loan broker sample shows how to exchange messages between Spring Integration applications (and other technologies) using **UDP**.
 
+#Contributing
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+See the [Spring Integration Contributor Guidelines](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-integration/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.adoc) for information about how to contribute to this repository.
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 #Resources
 
 For more information, please visit the Spring Integration website at: [http://www.springsource.org/spring-integration](http://www.springsource.org/spring-integration)