David Dossot on Wednesday, October 26, 2011
In the vast majority of cases, HTTP requests are processed synchronously: the operation that the client wants to perform on the targeted resource is executed by the same thread and the result is returned right away. This is usually done by connecting the HTTP layer directly to the service layer. This post demonstrates a slightly different [...]
Ross Mason on Tuesday, October 25, 2011
I wrote an article recently on InfoQ about how REST replaced SOAP on the web. The comments rolled in and I found myself if a debate that I have had many times before – “why do I need an integration platform?” There are a number of answers to this, but stripping features away the key [...]
Eugene Berman on Friday, October 21, 2011
Jasypt is an open source Java library which provides basic encryption capabilities using a high-level API. This library can be used with Mule to avoid clear text passwords for connectors and endpoints.First, download the latest Jasypt distribution, unpack it and copy icu4j and jasypt jars to MULE_HOME/lib/user directory.
Ross Mason on Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Who doesn’t know about Redis? It’s harder and harder to find someone giving a positive answer to this question as the popularity of this key/value store is constantly increasing. With an extensive support for diverse data structures, file-based persistence, a publish/subscribe engine and an upcoming (and highly anticipated) support for clustering, it is indeed not [...]
Sweta Vajjhala on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
High availability. Fault-tolerance. Redundancy. Region failover. These are all major features that users look for when determining which cloud platform to use. They are not, however, easy problems to solve when building a cloud platform. Previously, we discussed the technology surrounding Mule iON’s architecture. Now, we will take a deeper dive into these components and [...]
Ross Mason on Monday, October 10, 2011
I think most agree that this years JavaOne had turned a corner. The dark cloud over the future of Java under Oracle’s stewardship had lifted and there was a lot more interesting things happening with the platform. The hot topic was Java 7, and its EE counterpart. Walking away from the conference I had some [...]
Ray on Wednesday, October 5, 2011
In Mule 3.2 a group of stand-alone Mule instances can be configured to act as a cluster. One or more applications runs in each instance – or node – and the cluster processes requests as if a single unit. A node goes down, the application is still running; the more nodes, the more throughput. And [...]
Ross Mason on Tuesday, October 4, 2011
We continue our popular Mule Summit tour in Europe, next stops Paris, London and Stockholm. Mule Summit brings together the core Mule development team and Mule users for the premier event of the year for anyone doing integration. It offers a great opportunity to learn about key product developments, influence the product roadmap, and engage [...]
Ross Mason on Monday, October 3, 2011
JavaOne seems to have new flare now that the dust has settled from the Sun acquisition, and is set to be the best event in a long time. This year we’d love you to come by our booth and meet some of the team. There will be some cool Mule swag (yes, the squeezy Mules [...]
