From the Mule’s Mouth

New Cloud Connector: Integrating with Intacct

Albin Kjellin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:22:14 +0000

Intacct is an award-winning financial management system with over 5,000 customers worldwide. Intacct is often said to be the next logical step for companies that have outgrown QuickBooks Online. Since MuleSoft uses Intacct internally, it was natural that we needed a cloud connector to it in order to automate our internal business processes. As an [...]

Using XPath expressions on an XML document with namespaces

Dirk Olmes — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:24:44 +0000

The other day I helped a customer figure out a little XPath problem: they had an XML document and wanted to process it depending on an XPath expression. Here’s the Mule config that shows what we were trying to achieve: Running XML documents through this config did not work: none of the when expressions matched [...]

First Aid kit for Mules

nahuel.lofeudo — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:47:15 +0000

The alarms go off. You get an alert on your cellphone. You look at your systems dashboard and notice that your Mule server, which was happily chewing messages until just a minute ago, is struggling. What can you do? It is statistically very rare for Mule applications to fail, but when something unexpected happens it is [...]

Zero Downtime API Upgrades With iON

Dan Diephouse — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:20:39 +0000

We recently pushed out an update to iON which makes building APIs in the cloud better than ever: zero downtime upgrades. Without you having to do anything, we ensure that your application is able to continually serve requests while you’re updating it. The way this works is simple. Let’s say you have version 1.0 of [...]

The Disintegration of PaaS

Ross Mason — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:27:17 +0000

I just read a good post by Sam Charrington on RWW titled, The Disintegration of PaaS. He points out that early PaaS vendors had to build out the whole stack, including application server, database, file storage, etc. This locks applications into a specific stack. He goes on to say that we are now moving into a new evolution [...]

Announcing Mule 3.3 Milestone 2

Daniel Feist — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:27:12 +0000

Last month we released Mule 3.3 M1, our first milestone on the way to Mule 3.3. While for production you should use Mule 3.2.1, we hope these milestones are a great way to play around with the latest and greatest features. This is a great opportunity to provide feedback and have an impact on what we are doing [...]

Securing SOAP Web Services using WS-Security

evangelina.martinez — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:37:29 +0000

Mule allows us to expose services to the web through CXF, but what happens when these services handle sensitive information that we don’t want just anybody to read or change? We need to be able to authenticate who is consuming the Web service and determine if the user should have access to the service or [...]

Twitter Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Esper and Drools

john.demic — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:15:28 +0000

Complex event processing engines are a natural fit for event driven platforms like Mule. Native CEP support has been available in Mule since version 3.2 by way of the Drools Module. The Esper Module now offers an alternate way to leverage CEP in your integration applications. Esper is a robust, performant, open source, complex event processing engine. Let’s [...]

Application vs. Data Integration: Which is better?

Ross Mason — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:50:36 +0000

This question boils down to one thing: are you part of the transaction or not? Data Integration grew out of the adoption of relational databases and the need to move information between them. Typically, data integration is batch-orientated and deals with data at rest. In other words, the process that created the data has already completed. [...]

Webinar: Mule Studio – Integration Redefined

Kira — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:38:32 +0000

Think an easier, more accessible way to build applications is only a dream? With the release of Mule Studio, the graphical design tool for Mule, integration will never again be the same. Mule Studio is, by far, the easiest and most accessible way to build integration applications. Mule Studio also has no secrets, which means [...]