One of my favorite patterns from Michael Nygard’s excellent Release It! is the Circuit Breaker.  A circuit breaker is an automatic switch that stops the flow of electricity in the event of a failure.  This sort of behavior is also useful when integrating with remote systems. We might want to stop message delivery on an outbound-endpoint [...]

Filed under: Mule ESB, Mule iON, MuleSoft by john.demic on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 | Social tagging: circuit breaker > developer tools > DevKit > Mule ESB > Mule3 > patterns
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In computing like in life, not every attempt is successful the first time. A message delivery to a remote application may be impossible for a while. A particular business action may be impossible due to the temporary unavailability of an enterprise resource. The good news is that these adverse conditions may not last: all what is [...]

Filed under: Mule ESB by Ross Mason on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 | Social tagging: message processor > Mule3 > store and forward > until successful
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