Spring Cloud Stream Binders

In the previous chapter, I showed you how Spring Cloud Stream Application Starters work as stand-alone apps that can deliver an enterprise-ready solution with ease. I showed you the Spring Cloud Stream model application and how the main core is based on Spring Integration and Spring Boot for its easy configuration. You saw how to use Spring Cloud Functions and Spring Integration to create streams very easily. I also showed you a feature (the best, in my opinion) called a binder that allows your solution to use any physical destination or any middleware messaging broker. This chapter covers how to create a custom binder.