From the Mule’s Mouth

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 [...]

Mule Tip: Multiple PropertyPlaceholders in same Mule Configuration

Mariano Capurro — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:08:58 +0000

If you want to avoid including configuration parameters (probably connection related parameters) in your Mule configuration, you can use property placeholders, which will allow you to upload these parameters from a properties file. This enables you, for example, to have different property files for different environments (Dev, QA, Prod) or allows you to reuse the [...]

Using Mule with Drools and jBPM

Eugene Berman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:21:25 +0000

Mule 3 has many routing processors and expression evaluators that can be used to implement routing logic. However, sometimes business rules may be too complex. For example, one of our customers is a large logistics company which uses Mule for their warehouse routing. To handle their complex set of rules, they decided to use Mule [...]

Announcing Mule Studio General Availability

Mateo Almenta Reca — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:55:23 +0000

I’m really exited to announce the General Availability of Mule Studio. Mule Studio is a powerful graphical environment that allows to easily model, run, test and deploy Mule applications for both Mule ESB and Mule iON. Highlights: Is a single common tool for both on-premise and cloud deployment. Provides 2-way editing, meaning developers no longer have to [...]

Adding Flows Dynamically

fernando.federico — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:42:24 +0000

Mule has a new really cool module ready to be used in Muleforge called Dynamic Flows. The idea behind this new module might sound strange at first but it is actually quite simple: it allows you to add new flows to your existing mule application without restarting the server. It provides three simple operations for flow management: [...]

SaaS Integration Challenges? MuleSoft has the solution

Amelia Cady — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:31:53 +0000

Are you facing SaaS integration challenges? A recent survey of SaaS and cloud vendors found integration to be the #1 hurdle in the SaaS sales process, with almost 90% of respondents considering integration to be important or extremely important in winning new customers. Customer concerns about integration represent both a threat and an opportunity for [...]

Error Handling Patterns in Mule Part 2

Pablo La Greca — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:06:35 +0000

Continuing my previous blog post Error Handling Patterns in Mule, in this post I will show you how to implement the following use cases: Rollback transaction and send notification email Stop flow execution based on exception type Note: All examples in this blog are presented using the flow configuration style since it’s the preferred style [...]