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Introduction to Mule Cloud Connectors

Federico Recio on Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Every week we blog about new Cloud Connectors made available for the Mule community and we have plenty more in the pipe but now is probably a good time to explain more of the what and why of of Cloud Connectors.

Activiti + Mule ESB – Part 2

Esteban Robles Luna on Thursday, February 17, 2011

In the first part of this post we show how to start an Activiti process from Mule ESB using the new Mule’s activiti module. In this part we are going to show how to call a Web Service from Activiti that is going to be contained in Mule. Notice that you can expose anything as a [...]

Activiti + Mule ESB – Part 1

Esteban Robles Luna on Tuesday, February 15, 2011

We are pleased to announce Mule 3 Activiti support. We’re very happy to be working with the Activiti team and see a lot of value for our community using Mule and Activiti together. I already discussed why BPM and ESB need to work together and two different uses of ESBs with BPM. Today I am [...]

Run Mule, Run! Mule 3.1 is out

Ross Mason on Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The Mule team is very pleased to announce the general availability of Mule ESB 3.1. This release packs a lot of new shiny awesomeness. Cloud Connect We received loads of great feedback on Mule Cloud Connect and the team has been working hard on new improvements. Cloud Connectors now have specific XML schemas making it [...]

SOAP and REST are not interchangeable

juergen.brendel on Monday, November 22, 2010

Recently I saw this question posted in a forum: “Does REST have better performance than SOAP”? This question is symptomatic of a fundamental misunderstanding of REST, I think. SOAP is a particular protocol used to implement RPC functionality. REST, on the other hand, is not a technology or protocol, but an architectural style. Systems that [...]

RESTx version 0.9.4: JavaScript everywhere, MIME types and more

juergen.brendel on Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Version 0.9.4 of RESTx – the fastest way to create RESTful web services – has just been released. The main features introduced by this version are the ability to write components in server-side JavaScript, the addition of a JavaScript client library and much improved handling of content types for input and output. You can download [...]

Mashups and ESBs at Qcon

Ross Mason on Tuesday, March 16, 2010

I had a great time at Qcon London last week, it really is one of the more forward thinking conferences out there for the enterprise. I gave two talks on ESBs and Enterprise Mashups so I figured I’d share the slides.

Interoperating With .NET Web Services

Wey Cheng on Friday, September 25, 2009

There are use cases where you may want to send a message through HTTP, File, or another transport to a .NET Web Service. Using Mule ESB, it’s fairly straight-forward to accomplish this. Consider this use case: