Though a veteran language and platform, Erlang has recently gained a lot of traction, as very visible web sites and open source projects decided to use it in order to leverage its intrinsic support for highly concurrent, fault tolerant and distributed applications. To name a few, let’s mention: Facebook Chat, Mochiweb, ejabberd, RabbitMQ, riak and CouchDB.

Without opting for Erlang as a development platform, companies may still be tempted to leverage an Erlang-built middleware: most of them offer public interfaces accessible over generic protocols, like HTTP, and are easy to integrate quickly and efficiently. That said advanced scenarios can require a tighter integration like, for example, creating a module for ejabberd that requires to call custom Java code or reaching server functions on RabbitMQ that are not accessible through AMQP.

This is when the Duke meets Erl. And this is when Mule ESB can help, thanks to the new and coming Erlang Transport for Mule 3. Read on for more information about the transport and a walk-through a simple use-case of RabbitMQ integration. (more…)

In this episode MuleSource Director of Technical Publications Jackie Wheeler speaks with Hendrik Saly, creator of the LDAP transport for Mule. The LDAP transport provides support for connecting directory services via LDAP or LDAPS and is based on the JLDAP, which was developed by Novell and is available from the OpenLDAP project. (more…)

 

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In this episode, MuleSource CTO and co-founder Ross Mason speaks with David Dossot, creator of the JCR transport for Mule.  The JCR transport reads from, writes to, and observes JCR 1.0 containers.  Mule users can find a user guide and examples for using the JCR transport with Mule 1.4.x on the MuleForge – the user guide and examples for Mule 2.1.x are in the works now. (more…)

 

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