Question

I’ll soon start a new project in Grails in which I have to interact with Facebook and Twitter (and possibly myspace too).

I was wondering if someone already tried to do this through Spring Integration (2.0) adapters vs the new Spring Social APIs.

If you did, could you give me the pros and cons you’ve encountered with each of these ?

In Spring Integration, I’ve played with the twitter connector in a little example, and I found it quite easy. I liked the loose coupling. Spring social on the other hand seems to use templates that allow to do this easily too… hence my concerns about which framework to choose.

Thanks.

Philippe

Answer 1

Spring Integration is best suited

• if you have a sequence of steps, like a workflow
• you have atleast a couple such flows
• you want to separate your business logic from the orchestration logic (which step gets called when kind of stuff) in those flows

If all you need is simple connnectivity (for fire and forget messages) to twitter and the like, all you might need is spring social. Just adding Spring integration without a real need can lead to a system that is complicated to understand and maintain.