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Adding Flows Dynamically

fernando.federico on Monday, January 30, 2012

Mule has a new really cool module ready to be used in Muleforge called Dynamic Flows. The idea behind this new module might sound strange at first but it is actually quite simple: it allows you to add new flows to your existing mule application without restarting the server. It provides three simple operations for flow management: [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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.

Handling HTTP callbacks using the new Mule DevKit: a Twilio example

Federico Recio on Monday, December 5, 2011

When you send a request to an API and it gets processed the API might want to notify you app about the status of the request. In order for your application to handle this callback you would have to set up an endpoint to listen for the notification and then send the url of that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Writing your first Cloud Conector using the DevKit

Federico Recio on Wednesday, November 9, 2011

In this blog post I will show how to extend Mule in a simple way using the recently released Mule DevKit. The goal of the Mule DevKit is to accelerate the development of Mule extensions by abstracting you from Mule specific stuff so that you just focus on what your are trying to build. My [...]