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Load Balancing Apache Tomcat using IIS

Karan Malhi on Thursday, December 8, 2011

Front-ending Apache Tomcat with Apache Web Server or IIS is sometimes thought to improve performance. However, performance of Tomcat standalone has already been known to be very good. So why add IIS or Apache web server in front of it? – the answer is scalability and maintenance. Front-ending Tomcat with such web servers allows you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Authentication & Resource Sharing over the Web: OAuth protocol

Federico Recio on Tuesday, September 20, 2011

If you reached this blog and you are not a Mule user (yet) keep reading, I will not cover anything Mule specific. If you are new to OAuth or want to get an introduction to its concepts this post is the right one! Authentication is vital in any kind of system but it is even [...]

Cloud Connectors + Mule iON screencast

Federico Recio on Tuesday, July 19, 2011

This post is all about developing Cloud Connectors and deploying apps to Mule iON, but rather than just using words I created a screencast that demonstrates how to use Cloud connectors and Mule Flow to build applications that can be run on Mule or Mule iON. Cloud Connectors provide simple and reusable integration with Social [...]

Build your Cloud Connector in 5 easy steps

Emiliano Lesende on Thursday, June 30, 2011

We live in a world where the slow one is left behind. You company must adapt to the ever changing and complex world of technology integration. We live in a world where it is no longer acceptable to take months to integrate new services. So today’s post is about speed. I will show how you [...]

Measuring the Performance of your Mule ESB Application

victor.bonillo on Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Overview Once you have a working Mule ESB application you may be wondering how fast it can run. Here we will discuss a simple method for measuring the throughput of your application using Apache JMeter. Bear in mind there are many ways to improve performance (simple changes can yield great performance boosts). We will explore them [...]

Pimp your Mule Flow debugging session

Julien Eluard on Friday, March 25, 2011

Mule Management Console 3.1 ships with the brand new Flow Analyzer. Select your server, interesting flows, click start and enjoy seeing real-time messages passing through mule! Click on an debug event and you will see the payload before and after each message processor of your flow. Out of the box MMC will convert the payload to [...]

Securing REST Web Services against LDAP

jaskirat.bhatia on Thursday, March 24, 2011

Many Mule users create RESTful services but they are not always clear on the way to authenticate and apply authorization to a RESTful Web Service. I have seen questions about this topic so I decided to write a tutorial that covers a common use case. We’re going to use Jersey, Spring Security and LDAP and of course Mule to [...]

Making the move to Mule 3.1

michael.khalili on Wednesday, March 16, 2011

You’ve seen a lot on this blog about Mule 3.  We’ve seen a lot of interest from customers and partners around Mule 3.  We thought “well, how about a webinar on moving to Mule 3.” If you’ve been looking at Mule 3 but aren’t sure where to start, are trying to get the most out [...]