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Research Report Confirms Shift to Apache Tomcat

Sateesh Narahari on Friday, December 18, 2009

The move from big legacy Java EE application servers such as IBM WebSphere and Oracle WebLogic to Apache Tomcat is accelerating, according to a recent Tomcat survey that MuleSoft drove in collaboration with Computerworld.

Start Me Oh So Gently

Andrew Perepelytsya on Thursday, December 17, 2009

A common question Mule users have is ‘How do I perform some actions on Mule startup?’. Well, the fact is one can do it many ways

Saving Time Using Tcat Server’s Centralized Configuration Management

jasonb on Thursday, December 17, 2009

For those of you who are using Apache Tomcat in QA, staging, or production, I have no doubt that periodically you end up in the situation where you need to configure Tomcat’s server.xml, catalina.properties, logging.properties, and/or other Tomcat configuration files so that your webapps run the way you need them to run. Even though Tomcat [...]

The new @Schedule annotation in Mule and iBeans

Ross Mason on Thursday, December 17, 2009

Scheduling is great, it really is. It’s also very useful for application integration since we often have to repeat tasks of over time interval or schedule tasks for a date in the future. Mule has had scheduling support since version 1.1 with the Quartz connector, now with iBeans scheduling just got easier. iBeans offers a [...]

Noteworthy new features in Mule ESB Enterprise

Ken Yagen on Wednesday, December 16, 2009

With the release of Mule ESB 2.2.4 Enterprise Edition, there are several new and interesting capabilities that have been enhanced in Mule. Reading through the release notes, you might miss them, so I decided to highlight them here on the blog.

Announcing Tcat Server 6 R2

Sateesh Narahari on Tuesday, December 15, 2009

am happy to report that Tcat Server 6 R2 is now available for download. Since the release of Tcat Server 6, we have had lot of feedback from users. In addition to positive feedback, they also wanted us to add new features to the product. We worked closely with these users to come up with the user stories and then implement them. We believe these features would make Tcat Server 6 even more compelling for organizations using Apache Tomcat in development and production. The features are focussed on reducing the manual effort associated with using Apache Tomcat.

The new features are:

Using JSON bindings with iBeans

Ross Mason on Tuesday, December 15, 2009

JSON, short for JavaScript Object Notation, is a lightweight data interchange format. It is a text-based, human-readable format for representing simple data structures and associative arrays (called objects). Many REST services use JSON as the preferred data format (including Tcat Server’s REST API). JSON provides a much simpler model for data representation and is widely [...]

WS-Security and SAML for Mule

Travis Carlson on Monday, December 14, 2009

Mule has had support for WS-Security via CXF for some time now, but Mule 2.2.4 Enterprise goes a bit further still with the inclusion of the Mule SAML Module and a new WS-Security example. In this article, I will step through the WS-Security example so that you can see the different possibilities available for incorporating WS-Security into your Mule application.

Mule ESB 2.2.4 Enterprise Edition is now available

dzapata on Monday, December 14, 2009

We are pleased to announce that Mule ESB 2.2.4 Enterprise Edition is now available for download from the trial site (http://www.mulesoft.com/mule-esb-enterprise-trial-download) and our customer portal (http://mulesupport.mulesoft.com/portal/secure/app/download.mule).  Some of the changes include:

Twitter your Blog with iBeans

Ross Mason on Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Most websites offer RSS or ATOM feeds for news or updates, and iBeans makes it easy to consume these feeds. In this example, I will create a simple object that will read new entries from my blog and publish a summary of them on Twitter. Note that the example assumes that you have iBeans installed.