Mule bus

Posted Sun, 07/02/2010 - 20:15 by shlomo
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Hi,

has anyone had real experience with Mule? http://www.mulesoft.org/display/COMMUNITY/Home

 

If so, I would like to have a general idea of the architecture in use and the type of problem it was meant to solve.

 

Thanks,

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Comments

by andrew - 08/02/2010 - 12:36

I made an evaluation of Mule ESB for our project. It took a whole month as a full time job. So I have some familiarity with Mule ESB and other products of MuleSoft.

No ESB was necessary in that specific project at the end.

by shlomo - 08/02/2010 - 12:38

So what was your experience with it good or bad? what was the need?

by andrew - 08/02/2010 - 12:46

My impression from Mule ESB itself was good. Easy to use, lots of transports, light weight. In the project there was a need to connect components via REST, and this is where Mule has not much to offer. Mule has a few HTTP connectors, including Jersey for REST, but the advantage of using Mule only for that is miserable.

What is your need for ESB? Do you have different transports, like JMS or web services? Do you need routing?

by shlomo - 08/02/2010 - 16:26

Yes, we do have several transports such as JMS and WS.

by shalom - 09/02/2010 - 21:05

I would consider spring integration or apache camel before diving into an ESB. I think that's where Andrew is guiding to.