Do you have applications that rely on data or application logic in CICS/COBOL systems? Do you need to integrate those mainframe applications with the rest of your Java applications and services? Do you need an easy way to get COBOL data in and out of your mainframe environment? Do you need to safely bring high-value mainframe assets into your SOA, ESB and integration projects?

On July 14th at 10am PT,  join us for a live webinar on how Mule ESB and Mule Data Integrator allow the modernization and integration of mainframe CICS/COBOL systems.

In this 45 minute demo-driven event, Francis Upton, lead architect of Mule Data Integrator, will show how you can use Mule Data Integrator and Mule ESB to:

* Wrap a CICS/COBOL application as a web service in Mule ESB
* Use Mule ESB to integrate the COBOL service with a Java service
* Use Mule Data Integrator to transform the COBOL data to and from the Java objects
* Improve reuse and accessibility to mainframe data and logic

Logistics:
When: July 14, 2010
What time: 10am PT / 1pm ET
Click here to register!

In 2010, MuleSoft is getting very proactive about energizing the partners segment of our community.  This month we are really happy about a new partnership we’ve entered into with a bunch of ex-Red Hatter’s via a new start up called Axial.  Axial aims to disrupt the traditional proprietary handling of electronic medical record management by a few dozen large healthcare ISV’s by driving down the cost and level of effort required to enable medical record sharing.  Axial has just announced Axial360, a new open source interface engine project that hopes to enable the creation of an open library of connectors to the vast landscape of healthcare systems and electronic medical record repositories.  MuleSoft is excited to support and participate this endeavor and encourage all interested Mule developers to check it out and lend a hand.

Interested in participating?  Go here and download 360 today.  Interested in formalizing a partnership with MuleSoft on this or other projects or our commercial products, visit www.mulesoft.com/mulesoft-partner-program.

Do you need better visibility into Mule ESB performance metrics?  Would you like to have fine-grained control over your ESB resources at runtime to address performance issues? Are you a Mule ESB developer looking for an easy way to debug your service flows?

MuleSoft recently released a new Management Console for Mule ESB – purpose-built for deep visibility and control into your Mule environment and services during development and production.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 16th, Dan Diephouse, Core Developer at MuleSoft, and Mateo Almenta Reca, Sr. Product Manager at MuleSoft, will be doing a technical webinar about the Mule ESB Management Console.

During this 45-minute demo driven webinar, learn how Mule ESB Management Console can help:

• Monitor and manage Mule ESB server, service and endpoint-level using an intuitive web-based interface
• Detect performance bottlenecks and dynamically tune performance at runtime
• Debug message flows by auditing and inspecting payloads of in-flight messages going through Mule ESB
• Create alerts to receive notifications about critical conditions
• View and modify configuration files of remote servers
• Creating scripts to automate operations using the admin shell

Logistics:
Date: Wednesday, June 16th
Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET

Register for this event!

We’re pleased to announce the immediate availability of our newest release of Tcat Server 6. This new release includes many fixes, in addition to bundling the Apache Software Foundation’s official release binaries of the newest Tomcat release, version 6.0.26.

Here is a summary of the changes and fixes that are included in the new version of Tomcat, since our last release of Tcat Server 6:
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Recently, while working with Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, an opportunity came up for us at MuleSoft to take on open-source community work to improve the Ubuntu Tomcat 6 package. Having spent several years administering the most popular Tomcat Internet Relay Chat channel, I’ve gathered lots of feedback from Tomcat users about what they had difficulty with, and the changes I had to offer turned into implementation work.
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Since announcing Mule Data Integrator in November, we have seen great early adoption, with over a hundred organizations using it in development, and at least a handful who are going into production. The product is ideal for a wide variety of use cases, but one in particular has cropped up with some frequency: adding new trading partners (on-boarding) in large organizations.

Given that so many from the Mule community have been asking questions about this use case, we felt that it would make sense to do a live demo, showing how Mule Data Integrator can help dramatically simplify the on-boarding of trading partners and reduce the time to market for new customer or partner relationships.

Rapid Trading Partner on-boarding with Mule Data Integrator

Speaker: Francis Upton, Sr. Architect for Mule Data Integrator

Date: Wednesday, February 3rd

Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET

Click HERE to Register

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The new stable release of Tomcat 6.0.24 represents six months of open source software development. Version 6.0.24 includes a small number of new features, plus a large amount of important bug fixes and enhancements. This release is an incremental bug fix release, but the number of fixes included in this release is high. (more…)

ObjectWatch has put out a report titled The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity. They estimate that we are losing $500 billion per month in IT failures. That’s a scary number. If this rate of failure continues, business confidence in IT will diminish.

A couple of points in the report caught my eye, as they are applicable to the points we have been discussing over the last several months.

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The public beta phase is now complete — Tcat Server 6 R1 is now released!

Thanks for all of the help and feedback you gave us during the public beta. We learned quite a bit about what you, the Apache Tomcat community, want in the form of an Enterprise Tomcat server. We made many important changes, added some features, and did a lot of testing.

During the public beta, one thing we learned from your feedback was that a significant percent of your production Tomcat instances are still Tomcat version 5.5, which was a very good release branch of Tomcat. It had significant performance enhancements over 5.0, in addition to memory footprint reductions, and more. We’re not surprised to see many Tomcat 5.5 instances still dutifully serving the web. For these reasons, we’ve added full support for Tomcat 5.5 in the first GA release of Tcat Server — it now supports stable versions of Tomcat 6.0 and Tomcat 5.5. This means a single Tcat Server console installation can control and monitor a mixed set of Tomcat server instance versions, spanning different operating systems both old and new.

Some very important additional features we’ve just released include:

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We have released the GA version of Tcat Server today. The last few weeks have been exciting, as we were getting a continuous stream of feedback from the community, customers, and prospects.

We added several new features since the public beta release, which I will discuss later in this post.

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