Questions on Spring Boot starters...

[arnoldschrijve1]

Hi,

Two questions on the new spring boot starters for Activiti:

1. Why does

spring-boot-starter-basic‍

depend on spring-integration:

It has an optional dependency on:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-integration-java-dsl</artifactId>
            <version>${spring-integration-java-dsl.version}</version>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
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and contains some spring integration code in

org.activiti.spring.integration‍

Wouldn't it be better to have all this in the other starter:

spring-boot-starter-integration‍

?

2. Do these starters indicate that Activity from now on favors Spring Integration above Apache Camel as the integration framework of choice?

[jbarrez]

1. Good question, it was like that before first. But the idea with every Spring Boot starter is that they only contain some pom.xml and refer to some basic jar …

2. No. We're agnostic. We like both of them (but Spring is making huge strides forward the last year!)

[arnoldschrijve1]

Alright, thanks!
Yeah, I just saw the move to Spring MVC in the latest release. We are using the same for REST services including spring-security, so that is just great!

[jbarrez]

Indeed 🙂

We just observed that Spring MVC is currently one of the best Rest choices. Their development is really on the edge of new stuff … so it made sense to switch. Also, all the enterprise Activiti bits are based on Spring MVC too, so it made sense to change it one day.