July 2nd, 2009
I’ve talked about the List-Message-Splitter router before but have not had time to document a simple example of it yet.
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Tags: filter, list-message-splitter, Pattern, payload-type-filter
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June 29th, 2009
Everyone who uses Mule sets the MULE_HOME environment variable to get things working. Not everyone is aware of the MULE_BASE environment variable though
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Tags: environment, MULE_BASE, MULE_HOME
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June 25th, 2009
Teaching the Mule for System Administrators course last week meant that I spoke about JMX too, as usual. JMX on its own is not particularly interesting, but coupled with the Mule MX4j agent, you can quickly see some results in a browser.
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Tags: HTTPS, JMX, security
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June 11th, 2009
For those of us who have been wondering when certain features will be available in Mule, we finally have news of Mule 3 – and hot deployment is on the cards!
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Tags: annotations, hot deployment, IDE, Mule 3
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June 4th, 2009
In recent releases of Mule, the use of the synchronous attribute on endpoints has subtly changed the manner in which messages flow through the bus.
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Tags: Mule 2.2, Multicasting, synchronous
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June 1st, 2009
Nominations are out for the SourceForge community choice awards. Mule is in the running for this and we’d like to encourage you to vote for Mule!
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Tags: Mule ESB, SourceForge
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May 28th, 2009
I often am asked why components should not be tightly coupled to Mule. It sometimes is easy (and simple) to use the event context and send messages to alternative endpoints from within Java code, so why not? There is a standard answer, but I’d like to tackle a little-known reason in this post.
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Tags: loose-coupling, tight-coupling, transaction
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May 25th, 2009
I answered a message on the Mule user list this morning about connectors and how Mule auto-creates them if they’re not declared. I wanted to link to a post on the blog as I thought I had blogged about this before but it turns out I haven’t.
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Tags: connector, connector-ref, endpoint
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May 21st, 2009
Fourteen months and 120 posts ago, I started writing this blog. The first post wasn’t even Mule related but it was my first attempt at voicing my opinion about the weird and wonderful world around us.
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Tags: blog, guest blogger, Mule, video
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May 18th, 2009
Something I talk about in our Architect’s course is the structure of the ESB and how this relates to Mule and a Mule topology. Often, people think of an ESB as a single box on a diagram and then assume that they would have one single Mule running in their enterprise which represents that single box.
This is not the case.
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Tags: Architect's course, ESB, Mule instance, Service, topology
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