Proxy configuration support in Spring

Spring supports proxy configuration. We just need to configure the bean SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory which has a property proxy with java.net.Proxy bean. A sample configuration is shown in the following code:

<bean id="requestFactory" class="org.springframework.http.client.SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory">
  <property name="proxy">
  <bean id="proxy" class="java.net.Proxy">
    <constructor-arg>
    <util:constant static-field="java.net.Proxy.Type.HTTP"/>
    </constructor-arg>
    <constructor-arg>
    <bean class="java.net.InetSocketAddress">
      <constructor-arg value="123.0.0.1"/>
      <constructor-arg value="8080"/>
    </bean>
    </constructor-arg>
  </bean>
  </property>
</bean>

Spring Integration support for HTTP

Spring provides extended support to HTTP with adapters just like FTP, which consists of gateway implementation. Spring supports HTTP using the...