Mule (software)

Mule
Stable release 3.1.1 / March 15, 2011; 10 months ago (2011-03-15)
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform (JVM)
Type Enterprise Service Bus
License CPAL license
Website http://www.mulesoft.org/

Mule is a lightweight enterprise service bus (ESB) and integration framework.[1] It can handle services and applications using disparate transport and messaging technologies. The platform is Java-based, but can broker interactions between other platforms such as .NET using web services or sockets.

The architecture is a scalable,[2] highly-distributable object broker that can seamlessly handle interactions across legacy systems, in-house applications and almost all modern transports and protocols.[3]

Contents

Features

Some of the key features of Mule are:

Concepts

Supporting tools

  1. Mule IDE, which is a set of Eclipse plug-ins for developing, deploying and managing Mule projects.
  2. Mule Studio a graphical tool for designing, testing and running Mule flows.
  3. MuleForge provides a hosted project environment for Mule extensions such as Transports Modules, examples and core extensions. MuleForge provides its project management environment using Atlassian tools.

Mule has an integration engine, but the community edition lacks the support for Advanced Management interfaces. MuleSoft offers an Enterprise Edition of Mule that provides a rich Management console, a Service registry, and High Availability.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Enterprise-Service-Bus
  2. ^ http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=CaseStudyMule
  3. ^ http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/07/31/exploring-esb-patterns-with-mule.html

Further reading

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