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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 [...]

Error Handling Patterns in Mule Part 2

Pablo La Greca on Thursday, January 26, 2012

Continuing my previous blog post Error Handling Patterns in Mule, in this post I will show you how to implement the following use cases: Rollback transaction and send notification email Stop flow execution based on exception type

DevKit Feature Spotlight: Connection Management

Emiliano Lesende on Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The DevKit is a tool for accelerating the development of Mule extensions. A popular Mule extension is what we call a Cloud Connector. A Cloud Connector provides Mule with the ability to receive and send messages to/from a cloud service provider. We do not make assumptions about whether that service provider is a REST-based service, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

Mule Studio Beta Milestone 5 Released!

Mateo Almenta Reca on Tuesday, November 15, 2011

  We are pleased to announce the Beta Milestone 5 release of Mule Studio, the graphical design tool for Mule ESB. At its core, it is based on the Eclipse Development Platform which many developers are already familiar with. But we have added significant functionality to it to achieve a very tight integration to Mule ESB. This makes [...]

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 [...]

Every time you ignore Loose Coupling a little donkey dies

Ross Mason on Tuesday, October 25, 2011

I wrote an article recently on InfoQ about how REST replaced SOAP on the web. The comments rolled in and I found myself if a debate that I have had many times before – “why do I need an integration platform?” There are a number of answers to this, but stripping features away the key [...]