About the Authors

MARK FISHER is the founder of the Spring Integration project. Currently at VMware, he continues to lead the development of Spring Integration while exploring the intersection of big data and messaging. He has been a committer on a number of Spring projects, including the Spring Framework itself and Spring AMQP, which he cofounded. Mark speaks regularly at conferences and user groups about messaging, data, integration, and cloud computing.

JONAS PARTNER is the CEO of OpenCredo, a London-based consultancy with a strong focus on open source. As part of OpenCredo, Jonas has been a key part of many complex high-performance messaging projects. Before cofounding OpenCredo, Jonas worked for SpringSource, where he began his involvement with the Spring Integration project as one of the early committers.

MARIUS BOGOEVICI is a Senior Software Engineer with Red Hat, leading the Spring integration efforts at JBoss. He’s the lead for Snowdrop, a utility package for JBoss-specific extensions to Spring, and also contributes to Weld, the JSR-299/CDI reference implementation, and other Java EE–related developer initiatives at JBoss. Marius has more than 15 years of experience developing and architecting software systems. Prior to joining Red Hat, he was a Spring consultant with SpringSource and a contributor to the Spring Integration enterprise integration framework.

IWEIN FULD is a consultant at Xebia where he focuses on high-quality development and coaching teams. He’s a jack-of-all-trades, but keeps coming back to server integration problems and algorithms. Iwein has been a committer on the Spring Integration project since early 2008. Apart from being an expert on TDD, concurrency, and messaging, Iwein especially enjoys building agile teams and lean startups.