Wanting to mention how much that I appreciate Spring-Integration

[aljopainter]

Hi Spring-Integration folks,

I wanted to mention that I've been using Spring-Integration for entreprise software for close to 10 years now.
I really appreciate the care with which the framework is set up for adding new features with minimal coding.

One thing that I've added just recently is a mechanism for handling XML/JSON documents within Spring-Integration transformers.
I found that it was fairly easy to add a HttpMessageConverter for receiving/sending HTTP requests while keeping an internal message payload consisting of XML/JSON documents. It was also fairly easy to add a PropertyAccessor allowing SpEL to read/write information using this datatype either in the payload or in the headers.

The specific Integration startup beans facilitate adding PropertyAccessor and GenericConverters so the line-count for the added features is really small.

So this is just a note to say "good job" and "keep up the good work".

best regards

-alan