Spring Boot offers several conveniences for working with Spring Integration, including the spring-boot-starter-integration ‘Starter’. Spring Integration provides abstractions over messaging and also other transports such as HTTP, TCP, and others. If Spring Integration is available on your classpath, it is initialized through the @EnableIntegration annotation.

Spring Boot also configures some features that are triggered by the presence of additional Spring Integration modules. If 'spring-integration-jmx' is also on the classpath, message processing statistics are published over JMX . If 'spring-integration-jdbc' is available, the default database schema can be created on startup, as shown in the following line:

spring.integration.jdbc.initialize-schema=always

See the IntegrationAutoConfiguration and IntegrationProperties classes for more details.