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Introducing Mule Query Language

Dan Diephouse on Thursday, July 21, 2011

Working with web APIs, local APIs and different data formats and structures is too damn hard. You have to write painful verbose code to: Query Web APIs and work with the data Enrich and join data from external services with local services Compose RESTful services from existing services Version services and data formats Merge data [...]

Writing a Mule Transformer, Part 2

Ross Mason on Friday, December 12, 2008

Last week I posted about Writing Mule Transformers, this week I’m going to continue with some more advanced features users can take advantage of. Lifecycle All objects in Mule have lifecycle associated with them. Lifecycle calls can be added as necessary. For transformers, there are two lifecycle methods that are most useful. By default the [...]

Writing a Mule Transformer

Ross Mason on Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Transformers in Mule are simple objects that convert the current message from one type to another. The interface for a transformer is simple, but there are some tips and tricks for getting the most out of transformers. For this post we will define a transformer the converts from an Order object to HTML so that [...]

Introducing Expression Transformers

Ross Mason on Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Mule expression framework was one of the new features in Mule 2. It provides a very powerful way to make queries on incoming messages and use the results to control how Mule behaves. Mule already supports a variety of expression languages such as Xpath and Groovy. There is also expressions for navigating the current [...]