Spring XD

[Jayesh A Lalwani]

Spring XD sounds like it's doing what Apache Spark. How does it compare with Spark? Does it build on top of Spark, or is it an alternative to Spark?

[Bill Gorder]

I thought the same thing as they seemingly overlap some. However at SpringOne there was a presentation on this very thing and it turns out they are not mutually exclusive. You can use XD as a Source and Spark as a processor. There is also more in the works for adding support for Spark in XD.

I have not watched the presentation yet as I was in a different session at the time, however the slide deck is already available.

https://github.com/SpringOne2GX-2014/SparkForSpring
http://www.slideshare.net/sdeeg/spark-forspringdevs-springonefinal

[Jayesh A Lalwani]

Ahh that makes sense. So basically, it makes it easier to plug your Spring project into Spark