Archive for July, 2009
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
The MuleIDE is a plugin available for Eclipse which makes developing with Mule a little simpler. You can find full instructions on how to install it on the MuleSource wiki. For today’s blog post, I created a short video demonstrating how to get started with the MuleIDE.
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Tags: MuleIDE, Quick Guide
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Mule saves its logs into a file called, predictably enough, mule.log. This is fine until you try to run separate Mule instances on the same machine. MULE_BASE helps there as the log files are saved into MULE_BASE if it is set rather than MULE_HOME. This will still leave me with multiple files called mule.log though.
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Tags: log file, MULE_APP, MULE_BASE, MULE_HOME
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
I’ve downloaded and experimented with ChainBuilder ESB recently and wanted to relay my experiences to the Mule community. Caveat: While I am biased in favour of Mule, I did try to keep an open-mind while working with it …
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Tags: ChainBuilder, comparison, newbie
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
A recent post on the user list by Mule user Jack Wang asked what one would expect to be a simple question: How can you add a new line (CR) to a string payload for a MuleMessage?
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Tags: append-string-transformer, MuleMessage, new line
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
I’ve blogged about Log4j in the past and how it can be tweaked outside of a Mule application. Today I’m going to describe the patterns used to include (or exclude) more details from the log files themselves.
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Tags: ConversionPattern, DEBUG, ERROR, INFO, log4j, log4j.properties
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Following my previous article on JMX and security, I’d like to talk about one other question that I’m often asked: Where are all the statistics?
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Tags: JMX, monitoring, statistics
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
Interesting use-case presented to me while I was lecturing the other week – what if I need to filter for Mule messages based upon a message property? Furthermore, what if I needed to filter based upon whether a property existed and was set to null?
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Tags: expression, expression-filter, Groovy, message-property
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Thursday, 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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