Mule (software)

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Mule
Latest release 2.0.1 / 2008-04-30; 165 days ago
Written in Java
OS Cross-platform (JVM)
Type Enterprise Service Bus
License CPAL license
Website http://mule.mulesource.org/

Mule is a light-weight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and integration framework. It can handle services and applications using disparate transport and messaging technologies. The platform itself is Java-based but can broker interactions between other platforms such as .Net using Web Services or Sockets.

The architecture claims it is a scalable, highly distributable object broker that can seamlessly handle interactions across legacy systems, in-house applications and almost all modern transports and protocols.

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[edit] Features

Some of the key features of Mule are:

  1. Pluggable Connectivity, out of the box support for JMS, JDBC, TCP, UDP, multicast, http, servlet, SMTP, POP3, file, XMPP, and over 50 more.
  2. Powerful Message Routing capabilities
  3. Flexibility in deployment topologies (ESB, ESN, Hub and Spoke, Client server)
  4. Web Services and WS-* support using Apache CXF, XFire, Axis and Glue
  5. Integration with JBoss and other leading App servers
  6. Spring Integration
  7. Transformation Layer
  8. Integrated Security Management


[edit] Concepts

Mule supports routing and message auditing capabilities that are defined in the highly regarded Enterprise Integration Patterns book by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf.

Non-Intrusive approach. Any object can be managed by the ESB container.

[edit] Supporting Tools

  1. Eclipse IDE called MuleIDE, which is a set of Eclipse plug-ins for developing, deploying and managing Mule projects.
  2. MuleForge provides a hosted project environment for Mule extensions such as Transports Modules, examples and core extensions. MuleForge provides a complete project management environment using Atlassian tools.

Mule has reasonably good integration engine, but the community edition lacks the support for Advanced Management interfaces. MuleSource offers an Enterprise Edition of Mule that provides a rich Management and Monitoring tool, MuleHQ.

Similar Products exist, both Open Source and Commercial.


[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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