Spring Cloud Stream is built on top of Spring Boot. It allows us to create standalone, production-grade Spring applications and uses Spring Integration that helps in implementing communication with message brokers. Every application created with Spring Cloud Stream integrates with other microservices through input and output channels. Those channels are connected to external message brokers via middleware-specific binder implementations. There are two built-in binder implementations available—Kafka and Rabbit MQ.
Spring Integration extends the Spring programming model to support the well-known Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP). EIP defines a number of components that are typically used for orchestration ...
