diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/build.xml b/org.springframework.integration.samples/build.xml
index 7bd5eed299..0d2e82fdf9 100644
--- a/org.springframework.integration.samples/build.xml
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/build.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 			<fileset dir="${basedir}"> 
 				<include name="cafe/**" />
 				<include name="errorhandling/**"/>
+				<include name="filecopy/**"/>
 				<include name="helloworld/**"/>
 				<include name="jms/**"/>
 				<include name="oddeven/**"/>
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/.classpath b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f42fb64cfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src/main/java"/>
+	<classpathentry excluding="**" kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src/main/resources"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/test-classes" path="src/test/java"/>
+	<classpathentry excluding="**" kind="src" output="target/test-classes" path="src/test/resources"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/J2SE-1.5"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.maven.ide.eclipse.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+</classpath>
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/.project b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/.project
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c2900bec4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>filecopy</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature</nature>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/pom.xml b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..59e19f1338
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <parent>
+    <artifactId>spring-integration-samples</artifactId>
+    <groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId>
+    <version>1.0.3</version>
+  </parent>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>filecopy</groupId>
+  <artifactId>filecopy</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0.3</version>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/BinaryFileCopyDemo.java b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/BinaryFileCopyDemo.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..47a851927b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/BinaryFileCopyDemo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.integration.samples.filecopy;
+
+import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
+
+/**
+ * Demonstrating the file copy scenario using binary file source and target.
+ * 
+ * @author Marius Bogoevici
+ */
+public class BinaryFileCopyDemo {
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		FileCopyDemoCommon.setupDirectories();
+		new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("fileCopyDemo-binary.xml", BinaryFileCopyDemo.class);
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/Exclaimer.java b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/Exclaimer.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0e73b95531
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/Exclaimer.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.integration.samples.filecopy;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+/**
+ * A class providing several handling methods for different types of payloads.
+ * 
+ * @author Mark Fisher
+ * @author Marius Bogoevici
+ */
+public class Exclaimer {
+
+	public String exclaim(String input) {
+		System.out.println("Copying text: " + input);
+		return input.toUpperCase();
+	}
+	
+	public File exclaim(File input) {
+		System.out.println("Copying file: " + input.getAbsolutePath());
+		return input;
+	}
+	
+	public byte[] exclaim(byte[] input) {
+		System.out.println("Copying " + input.length + " bytes ...");
+		return new String(input).toUpperCase().getBytes();
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/FileBasedFileCopyDemo.java b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/FileBasedFileCopyDemo.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8004c3e5b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/FileBasedFileCopyDemo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.integration.samples.filecopy;
+
+import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
+
+/**
+ * Demonstrating the file copy scenario using file-based source and target.
+ *
+ * @author Marius Bogoevici
+ */
+public class FileBasedFileCopyDemo {
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		FileCopyDemoCommon.setupDirectories();
+		new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("fileCopyDemo-file.xml", FileBasedFileCopyDemo.class);
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/FileCopyDemoCommon.java b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/FileCopyDemoCommon.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..66a4edc7db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/FileCopyDemoCommon.java
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.integration.samples.filecopy;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+/**
+ * Common functionality for the file demo.
+ * 
+ * @author Marius Bogoevici
+ */
+public class FileCopyDemoCommon {
+
+	public static void setupDirectories() {
+		String tmpDirPath = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
+		File parentDir = new File(tmpDirPath + File.separator + "spring-integration-samples");
+		File inDir = new File(parentDir, "input");
+		File outDir = new File(parentDir, "output");
+		if ((inDir.exists() || inDir.mkdirs()) && (outDir.exists() || outDir.mkdirs())) {
+			System.out.println("input directory is: " + inDir.getAbsolutePath());
+			System.out.println("output directory is: " + outDir.getAbsolutePath());
+		}
+		else {
+			System.err.println("failed to create directories within tmp dir: " + tmpDirPath);
+			System.exit(0);
+		}
+	}
+	
+}
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/TextFileCopyDemo.java b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/TextFileCopyDemo.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..490fcb2dda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/TextFileCopyDemo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.integration.samples.filecopy;
+
+import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
+
+/**
+ * Demo of file source and target adapters.
+ * 
+ * @author Mark Fisher
+ * @author Marius Bogoevici
+ */
+public class TextFileCopyDemo {
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		FileCopyDemoCommon.setupDirectories();
+		new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("fileCopyDemo-text.xml", TextFileCopyDemo.class);
+	}
+	
+}
+
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-binary.xml b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-binary.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ab94b36a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-binary.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xmlns:integration="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
+	xmlns:file="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/file"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration-1.0.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/file
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/file/spring-integration-file-1.0.xsd">
+
+	<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/>
+
+	<file:inbound-channel-adapter id="filesIn"
+	                              directory="file:${java.io.tmpdir}/spring-integration-samples/input"/>
+
+	<file:file-to-bytes-transformer input-channel="filesIn" output-channel="bytes" delete-files="true"/> 
+
+	<integration:channel id="bytes"/>
+
+	<integration:service-activator input-channel="bytes"
+	                               output-channel="filesOut"
+                                   ref="exclaimer" method="exclaim"/>
+
+	<file:outbound-channel-adapter id="filesOut" directory="${java.io.tmpdir}/spring-integration-samples/output"/>
+
+	<bean id="exclaimer" class="org.springframework.integration.samples.filecopy.Exclaimer"/>
+
+	<integration:poller id="poller" default="true">
+		<integration:interval-trigger interval="5000"/>
+	</integration:poller>
+
+</beans>
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-file.xml b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-file.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..69060100c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-file.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xmlns:integration="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
+	xmlns:file="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/file"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration-1.0.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/file
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/file/spring-integration-file-1.0.xsd">
+
+	<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/>
+
+	<file:inbound-channel-adapter id="filesIn"
+	                              directory="file:${java.io.tmpdir}/spring-integration-samples/input">
+		<integration:poller>
+			<integration:interval-trigger interval="5000"/>
+		</integration:poller>
+	</file:inbound-channel-adapter>
+
+	<integration:service-activator input-channel="filesIn"
+	                               output-channel="filesOut"
+                                   ref="exclaimer" method="exclaim"/>
+
+	<file:outbound-channel-adapter id="filesOut" directory="${java.io.tmpdir}/spring-integration-samples/output"/>
+
+	<bean id="exclaimer" class="org.springframework.integration.samples.filecopy.Exclaimer"/>
+
+</beans>
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-text.xml b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-text.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..de4d4df358
--- /dev/null
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/filecopy/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/samples/filecopy/fileCopyDemo-text.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xmlns:integration="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
+	xmlns:file="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/file"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration-1.0.xsd
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/file
+			http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/file/spring-integration-file-1.0.xsd">
+
+	<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/>
+
+	<file:inbound-channel-adapter id="filesIn"
+	                              directory="file:${java.io.tmpdir}/spring-integration-samples/input"
+	                              filename-pattern="[a-z]+.txt">
+		<integration:poller>
+			<integration:interval-trigger interval="5000"/>
+		</integration:poller>
+	</file:inbound-channel-adapter>
+
+	<file:file-to-string-transformer input-channel="filesIn" output-channel="strings"/>
+
+	<integration:channel id="strings"/>
+
+	<integration:service-activator input-channel="strings"
+	                               output-channel="filesOut"
+                                   ref="exclaimer" method="exclaim"/>
+
+	<file:outbound-channel-adapter id="filesOut" directory="${java.io.tmpdir}/spring-integration-samples/output"/>
+
+	<bean id="exclaimer" class="org.springframework.integration.samples.filecopy.Exclaimer"/>
+
+</beans>
diff --git a/org.springframework.integration.samples/pom.xml b/org.springframework.integration.samples/pom.xml
index ea2e3cba58..58d8012bbf 100644
--- a/org.springframework.integration.samples/pom.xml
+++ b/org.springframework.integration.samples/pom.xml
@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 	<name>Spring Integration Samples</name>
 	<properties>
-		<release.version>1.0.3.BUILD-20090701033844</release.version>
+		<release.version>1.0.3.RELEASE</release.version>
 	</properties>
 	<modules>
 		<module>cafe</module>
 		<module>errorhandling</module>
+		<module>filecopy</module>
 		<module>helloworld</module>
 		<module>jms</module>
 		<module>oddeven</module>