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Mule SAP Enterprise Connector is here!

Mateo Almenta Reca on Monday, January 16, 2012

This week we announced the availability the Mule SAP Enterprise Connector. This is a major milestone since Mule is the only next generation ESB to be certified by SAP. SAP is one of the most popular Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions on the market. But the big challenge for SAP customers is how to integrate [...]

Mule Hackathon Cup 2012 v1.0

Ken Yagen on Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Here at MuleSoft, every few months we take a couple days off and hold a company Hackathon. Usually these are individual efforts to build something unique and interesting using the technology and products that we create at MuleSoft. To kick off the new year, we decided to sponsor a team event and see if we [...]

5 Biggest IT Trends for 2012 and how Open APIs are a driving force

Kira on Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Wondering what 2012 will bring for the IT world? Ross Mason, MuleSoft Founder and CTO, has identified the five major trends you need to watch this year and how they will affect your organization. These trends are:

Announcing Mule 3.3 Milestone 1

Daniel Feist on Monday, January 9, 2012

A couple of months back we released Mule 3.2, which is the version we recommend for all Mule users.  The latest release of Mule 3.2 is Mule 3.2.1 which can be found on the download page. We haven’t stopped though. Since releasing Mule 3.2.1, we’ve been busy working on Mule 3.3 M1.  This is the first of a [...]

Error Handling Patterns in Mule

Pablo La Greca on Thursday, January 5, 2012

Exception handling in event-driven systems like Mule can sometimes be a challenge because there are usually many more things happening at once, In this blog I will show you how to implement some common error handling patterns in Mule. We are going to cover the following use cases: Route a message before exception through an [...]

Using Amazon SQS with Mule and iON

Dan Diephouse on Thursday, December 29, 2011

I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but application messaging is extremely important for a wide variety of applications. It allows you to: Decouple application message processing from receiving Orchestrate data between two applications Handle the loss of a server without losing data Process data at a later date when you have more capacity Yet, [...]

Things to do while watching another holiday movie

Ross Mason on Tuesday, December 27, 2011

By now you have opened all your presents, you’re wearing your new socks/sweater/santa underwear, you’ve eaten like a champ and you’ve done the family bit. Now you find yourself thinking about the new year and what to do next.  Here are some ideas for the technically inclined folks out there.

Announcing DevKit 3.1: easy OAuth, API docs and more

Emiliano Lesende on Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Less than a month ago we released the DevKit 3.0 and we are on a roll here. Just in case you are jumping onto the bandwagon a little late, the DevKit is a tool for authoring Mule extensions. The model is quite easy. First you write a POJO, then you annotate your POJO with Mule [...]

2011: A Mule Retrospective

Ross Mason on Monday, December 19, 2011

As cliché as it is to say, it’s hard to believe that an entire year has passed since I last took stock of Mule. When I look back on 2011, it’s absolutely incredible to me how far MuleSoft and the Mule community have come.

Implementing a Circuit Breaker with DevKit

john.demic on Wednesday, December 14, 2011

One of my favorite patterns from Michael Nygard’s excellent Release It! is the Circuit Breaker.  A circuit breaker is an automatic switch that stops the flow of electricity in the event of a failure.  This sort of behavior is also useful when integrating with remote systems. We might want to stop message delivery on an outbound-endpoint [...]