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Using Mule with Drools and jBPM

Eugene Berman on Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Mule 3 has many routing processors and expression evaluators that can be used to implement routing logic. However, sometimes business rules may be too complex. For example, one of our customers is a large logistics company which uses Mule for their warehouse routing. To handle their complex set of rules, they decided to use Mule [...]

Modeling your Business Logic: BPM, Rules, and CEP (Part 2)

Travis Carlson on Tuesday, June 14, 2011

In part 1 of this post, I gave an overview of BPM, Rules, and CEP and the way they compliment an integration platform such as Mule. Now let’s take a look at what Mule has to offer for integrating with some of these tools.

Modeling your Business Logic: BPM, Rules, and CEP (Part 1)

Travis Carlson on Thursday, April 21, 2011

One of the more common usages of Mule is as the integration piece of a larger SOA architecture. Mule has traditionally never attempted to offer a complete SOA suite/stack of products as some of its larger competitors do, but has rather focused on the thing it does best, which is integration. Other aspects of an [...]

Why use jBPM with Mule?

Travis Carlson on Thursday, April 15, 2010

Mule integrates with jBPM, allowing you to send/receive messages to/from a running process. A message from Mule can start or advance a process, the message can be used as a process variable, and a process can send messages to any endpoint in your Mule config.