The Spring Framework 2.0 introduced support for namespaces, which simplifies the Xml configuration of the application context, and consequently Spring Integration provides broad namespace support. This reference guide applies the following conventions for all code examples that use namespace support:

The int namespace prefix will be used for Spring Integration's core namespace support. Each Spring Integration adapter type (module) will provide its own namespace, which is configured using the following convention:

int- followed by the name of the module, e.g. int-twitter, int-stream, …

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:int="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
  xmlns:int-twitter="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/twitter"
  xmlns:int-stream="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/stream"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration 
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/twitter 
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/twitter/spring-integration-twitter.xsd  
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/stream 
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/stream/spring-integration-stream.xsd">
…
</beans>

For a detailed explanation regarding Spring Integration's namespace support see Section B.2, “Namespace Support”.