The document provides an introduction to Spring Enterprise Integration. It discusses that Spring Enterprise Integration extends the Spring programming model to messaging and builds on existing enterprise integration support. It provides a higher level of abstraction and supports message-driven architectures, routing, and transformation of messages to integrate different transports and data formats. The document also summarizes the goals of Spring Integration as providing a simple model for complex integration solutions, facilitating asynchronous messaging in Spring applications, and promoting intuitive adoption for Spring users.