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Mulecast: A conversation with the project despot of the Smooks for Mule project

Community on Friday, January 30, 2009

In this episode, MuleSource CTO and founder Ross Mason speaks with Maurice Zeijen, despot on the Smooks for Mule module.  Smooks for Mule is a Mule module that enables Message Transformation and Routing using the Smooks Engine. The Smooks engine is a Java Framework/Engine for processing XML and non XML data.

Real World Use Case: Nespresso Meets Massive Growth Needs with Next-Generation SOA Solution

Community on Tuesday, January 27, 2009

We’re always thrilled to showcase the successes of Mule users.  Read a use case with Nespresso and Optaros that discusses how Nespresso is using Mule to implement a new middleware architecture, called Nespresso Open Architecture (NesOA) using Mule Enterprise at the core.

How to Build a Recession-Proof SOA Strategy

Ross Mason on Monday, January 26, 2009

My article on creating an SOA strategy in this tough climate was just published on eWeek: The current economic crisis and recession is affecting both IT spending today and budgets for 2009. Often viewed as a major cost center, IT becomes one of the first areas where senior management looks to make cuts when times [...]

“Implementing Messaging Patterns Using Web Services With Mule”: Webinar archive and sample code.

Daniel Feist on Thursday, January 22, 2009

For those of you that wish the view this webinar again, or for those of you that missed it, the archive of this webinar is now available online here. Also the sample code shown in the Webinar is now available here. Any questions can be sent to our User List

Mule IntelliJ Tips

Ross Mason on Wednesday, January 21, 2009

As some may know, we have been working on our open source Mule IDE based on Eclipse. However, with the schema-based configuration in Mule, IntelliJ IDEA users get some great features to help them build mule applications quicker too.

How to Define Services

Ross Mason on Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Defining what constitutes a service when building service-orientated applications seems to be a common problem for developers and architects who are new to building services. The main issue seems to be the scope, i.e. what is the granularity of the service. This is actually quite difficult since the granularity of a service can vary depending [...]

Hungry for Some Mule Reading?

Andrew Perepelytsya on Monday, January 19, 2009

It’s great times for the Mule Community with more and more Mule texts coming out. Today we’d like to highlight the just-released DZone Mule Refcard (free registration). It’s a great and concise PDF reference on Mule, and it’s coming from Jos Dirksen himself, the co-author of Open-Source ESBs in Action. Don’t miss out on the [...]

SalesForce Integration Made Easy

Puneet Gupta on Tuesday, January 13, 2009

SalesForce does a great job managing your customer information. It is easy to customize and use, and you do not have to worry or pay millions of dollars to maintain the software or hardware. The valuable information locked in SalesForce may be required by a host of other applications in your enterprise like Order/Inventory Management, [...]

“SOA What” – the newest hit in dev rock

Community on Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Mark Bromfield, a senior programmer at Interval came up with this witty little jingle that we all get a (Mule) kick out of. Listen for yourself! Lyrics are posted here if you’d like to sing along.

Webinar: Implementing Messaging Patterns Using Web Services With Mule

Daniel Feist on Monday, January 12, 2009

Most people reading this blog are Mule users and are familiar with message-based architectures and enterprise integration patterns, and most people have heard of or used web services at some point, but how many of you have successfully used Mule and web services together without compromising your architecture?