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Implementing Custom Validation with DevKit

john.demic on Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Validating data can be easy with Mule if your message payloads are in certain formats.  XML payloads, for instance, can be verified for correctness via XML schema or XPath filters. Payload type filters and OGNL expression evaluation can go a long way in asserting your POJO payloads are correct. Payloads with less structure, like Map or [...]

PaaS and Open APIs: Ninja slicing the application stack

Ross Mason on Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Application stacks are so passé, now its all about the slice. With the rise of open APIs we are seeing a new breed of application. Infrastructure APIs are cropping up everywhere for doing things like email, FTP, monitoring and management, analytics and application security.  These slices of functionality, delivered as services, remove the time consuming [...]

Get real-time with the new SalesForce API

Federico Recio on Monday, November 28, 2011

Before streaming APIs, if you wanted to know if there were any updates on a specific event you had to query the API periodically and check if updates indeed occurred. Most likely, many of these queries would probably return no results as no new event happened but still resources were consumed in the process including [...]

Get the most out of Mule HA clusters

Kira on Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Mule 3.2 introduced out-of-the-box HA clustering and reliability patterns. Want learn how to get the most out of these new capabilities? Mike Schilling, MuleSoft’s Lead Architect, shares his in depth knowledge about Mule 3.2′s HA clusters.  If you are looking learn the leading tips and tricks for designing and managing clusters, as well as the applications [...]

The benefits of APIs, my top 10 and why you should use them

Ross Mason on Tuesday, November 22, 2011

At QCon SF last week I gave my talk on DevOps to NoOps: 10 cloud services you should be using. I talked about what I call the API explosion and how that impacts the way we build applications before introducing my list. I focused on infrastructure APIs because I believe these have the biggest impact [...]

Connector of the Week: Using the LinkedIn API

Federico Recio on Monday, November 21, 2011

Of all the professional networks available LinkedIn has clearly taken the lead with more than 120 million members. Do you use LinkedIn? Most likely you do! That’s why we thought it’s important to have a Cloud Connector to interact with LinkedIn and take advantage of its social power.

Mule Tip: Including formatted SQL statements from external files in your application

german.solis on Friday, November 18, 2011

When developing a Mule Application the normal way to define an SQL statement is by declaring it directly in the connector, as shown in the following snippet. However is possible that you’ll face a situation in which you have to use large and complex queries. For that scenario the previous approach is not adequate since [...]

Security in the Cloud: Protecting Your Applications

Sweta Vajjhala on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Security around public cloud offerings has always been a major point of concern (and controversy) for users. How do cloud providers protect customer data? How is log data protected? How is the surrounding infrastructure secured? We previous talked about how iON stays up and running even through EC2 outages. Today, we will talk about iON [...]

Mule Studio Beta Milestone 5 Released!

Mateo Almenta Reca on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

  We are pleased to announce the Beta Milestone 5 release of Mule Studio, the graphical design tool for Mule ESB. At its core, it is based on the Eclipse Development Platform which many developers are already familiar with. But we have added significant functionality to it to achieve a very tight integration to Mule ESB. This makes [...]

Give your application a voice of its own with Twilio

Emiliano Lesende on Monday, November 14, 2011

The last time we talked I show you how you can easily build RESTful APIs on top of iON.  I just covered just a very narrow scenario, the sky is the limit when talking about the kind of integrations that you can build using iON. So this week I’m going to walk you through another interesting use [...]