JIRA: https://jira.spring.io/browse/INT-4443 **cherry-pick to 5.0.x, 4.3.x** Polishing; use data binding accessor in test evaluation contexts. Add `.withInstanceMethods()` See https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-16588?focusedCommentId=158041&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-158041 * Polishing according PR comments # Conflicts: # build.gradle # src/reference/asciidoc/changes-4.3-5.0.adoc # Conflicts: # build.gradle # spring-integration-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/expression/ExpressionUtils.java # spring-integration-http/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/http/config/HttpOutboundChannelAdapterParser.java # spring-integration-http/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/http/config/HttpOutboundGatewayParser.java # spring-integration-http/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/http/outbound/AbstractHttpRequestExecutingMessageHandler.java # spring-integration-http/src/main/resources/org/springframework/integration/http/config/spring-integration-http-4.3.xsd # spring-integration-http/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/http/outbound/HttpRequestExecutingMessageHandlerTests.java # spring-integration-http/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/http/outbound/UriVariableExpressionTests.java # src/reference/asciidoc/changes-4.2-4.3.adoc # src/reference/asciidoc/http.adoc
Spring Integration 
Checking out and Building
To check out the project and build from source, do the following:
git clone git://github.com/spring-projects/spring-integration.git
cd spring-integration
./gradlew build
NOTE: While Spring Integration runs with Java SE 6 or higher, a Java 8 compiler is required to build the project.
If you encounter out of memory errors during the build, increase available heap and permgen for Gradle:
GRADLE_OPTS='-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -Xmx1024m'
To build and install jars into your local Maven cache:
./gradlew install
To build api Javadoc (results will be in build/api):
./gradlew api
To build reference documentation (results will be in build/reference):
./gradlew reference
To build complete distribution including -dist, -docs, and -schema zip files (results will be in build/distributions)
./gradlew dist
Using Eclipse
To generate Eclipse metadata (.classpath and .project files), do the following:
./gradlew eclipse
Once complete, you may then import the projects into Eclipse as usual:
File -> Import -> Existing projects into workspace
Browse to the 'spring-integration' root directory. All projects should import free of errors.
Using IntelliJ IDEA
To generate IDEA metadata (.iml and .ipr files), do the following:
./gradlew idea
Resources
For more information, please visit the Spring Integration website at: http://projects.spring.io/spring-integration