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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MuleSoft just announced availability of Mule MQ.

Seriously! Do we really need another messaging server in this already crowded market? Then again, do we really need Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid when Apple’s iPhone supposedly already has almost everything one could ask for? The answer lies in the user’s need for reliability, performance, interoperability, and ease of use – in short, the answer is YES. (more…)

With the release of Mule ESB 2.2.4 Enterprise Edition, there are several new and interesting capabilities that have been enhanced in Mule. Reading through the release notes, you might miss them, so I decided to highlight them here on the blog. (more…)

We are pleased to announce that Mule ESB 2.2.4 Enterprise Edition is now available for download from the trial site (http://www.mulesoft.com/mule-esb-enterprise-trial-download) and our customer portal (http://mulesupport.mulesoft.com/portal/secure/app/download.mule).  Some of the changes include:
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I’m pleased to announce the latest iBeans 1.0-beta-9 release. This release has lots of new features, including:

• An iBeans plugin for Eclipse makes it really easy to create and debug web projects that use iBeans. The plugin works with the JEE distribution of Eclipse, enabling you to create and test a web application on Tomcat or MuleSoft Tcat in minutes. See iBeans Eclipse plugin for more information.

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Today, MuleSoft released a brand new product, Mule Data Integrator, which is available for download here. Mule Data Integrator (MDI) is free for developers to use and includes an Eclipse-based designer that is fully integrated with Mule IDE.

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The Mulesoft team is pleased to announce the 1.0-beta-8 release of iBeans.

What is iBeans?

iBeans is a service that simplifies integration for web applications. iBeans exposes its API as a small collection of Annotations which can be used to easily integrate with existing or new applications. iBeans is installed in the Application Container and provides integration services to your applications, right now Tomcat is supported with others to follow.

There are two parts to iBeans API – (more…)

MuleSoft is proud to announce that Mule IDE 2.0 has been released.

Mule IDE 2.0 is a development and testing environment based on Eclipse. It supports the following features: (more…)

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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Since the launch of the public beta of Tcat Server a few weeks ago, the team at MuleSoft has been busy working on adding new features to the product. We also launched a new product called Mule iBeans. To complement iBeans, we released public beta 2 of Tcat Server, which is now optimized as the ideal runtime for iBeans and contains several new features. Here are the highlights:

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