The Mule ESB team is pleased to announce the next milestone towards our final Mule 3.0 release. Recent work includes the following areas:

Hot Deployment – Mule now supports multiple applications running within the same Mule instance and deployment descriptors for specifying the contents of your deployment (e.g., multiple configuration files). Most of the Mule examples have been converted to the new deployment format*. If you have not yet read about the application deployment model new to Mule 3.0, read this blog post.

Message Exchange Patterns – Message Exchange Patterns (a.k.a. MEPs) give you more explicit and flexible control over the way messages flow through Mule. For example, you can now specify whether you expect a response on a given endpoint or not (see the new attribute “exchange-pattern” on endpoints). In the future, we may introduce additional exchange patterns that allow for different communication styles as well.

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Lat week we released Mule ESB 2.2.6 Enterprise. This release represents the most stable version of Mule ESB, with over 350 bug fixes since Mule ESB 2.2.1 Community.
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Today we are happy to announce the release of version 0.9.2 of RESTx – the fastest and simplest way to create RESTful web services.

Besides the usual, numerous small improvements and fixes there are also a number of exciting major new features and capabilities:
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The Mule ESB team is pleased to announce the next milestone towards our final Mule 3.0 release. Recent work includes the following areas:

Hot Deployment – Mule now supports multiple applications running within the same Mule instance and deployment descriptors for specifying the contents of your deployment (e.g., multiple configuration files). All Mule examples included in the distribution have now been updated to use the new application deployment format. If you have not yet read about the application deployment model new to Mule 3.0, read this blog post.

Message Exchange Patterns – Message Exchange Patterns (a.k.a. MEPs) give you more explicit and flexible control over the way messages flow through Mule. For example, you can now specify whether you expect a response on a given endpoint or not (see the new attribute “exchange-pattern” on endpoints). In the future, we may introduce additional exchange patterns that allow for different communication styles as well.

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Many of you reading this have already seen the Apache Software Foundation’s press release about Tomcat 7.0.0 — it was voted beta quality on June 25th, and the Tomcat 7 web pages went live on the Tomcat project web site this morning. It looks wonderful! Congratulations to the Tomcat development team on a year and a half of Tomcat 7 development! This first beta release of the Tomcat 7 branch is a major step forward in that it implements the Java Servlet 3.0 API, which is not an incremental revision of the last version. It is a major feature revision that modernizes the Servlet API in a number of ways, and adds quite a few new features that webapp developers will use and enjoy.

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The Mule ESB team is happy to report that we published the next milestone on our journey to a final Mule 3 release. The focus of Milestone 3 was mostly on internal architecture changes. Some highlights:

• MuleMessageAdapter has been dropped, replaced with MuleMessageFactory (read more in this post)
• Lifecycle improvements and fixes, although that may affect only users coding against Mule APIs, like custom transport creators (read more here)
• Support for Axis transport is being phased out gradually. Enterprise customers would still be able to obtain the transport from the portal to ease migration to Mule 3
• An early preview of the new deployment model for Mule applications, drool over the details here.

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Mule 3 Milestone 3 (3.0.0-M3) is ready to hit the streets, and today we’d like to talk about a fundamental transformation that it has undergone. Mind you, it’s not the only one

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I’m pleased to announce that Mule team has just released 3.0 Milestone 2. Before we get into the features coming in Mule 3.0, I’d like to talk about the theme for this release.
The overall theme for Mule 3.0 is simplicity. We are looking at every part of Mule to see what we can do to make things even easier. Mule is a powerful platform, but we realise not everyone wants or needs all that power. The feedback from our users and customer is that they would like other ways of configuring Mule to make it easier for their new developers to get going quickly.
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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…)