Spring Integration File extends the Spring Integration Core with dedicated vocabulary to deal with reading, writing and transforming files. There is a namespace that enables elements that define channel adapters dedicated to files and support for transformers that transform files into strings or byte arrays.

This section will explain the workings of FileReadingMessageSource, FileWritingMessageHandler and how to configure them as beans. Also the support for dealing with files through file specific implementations of Transformer will be discussed. Finally the file specific namespace will be explained.