Month: March 2010

Mule 3.0-M2 and beyond

Posted on | by Ross Mason | 2 Comments on Mule 3.0-M2 and beyond
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I’m pleased to announce that Mule team has just released 3.0 Milestone 2. Before we get into the features coming in Mule 3.0, I’d like to talk about the theme for this release.
The overall theme for Mule 3.0 is simplicity. We are looking at every part of Mule to see what we can do to make things even easier. Mule is a powerful platform, but we realise not everyone wants or needs all that power. The feedback from our users and customer is that they would like other ways of configuring Mule to make it easier for their new developers to get going quickly.

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Invoking a service method in Mule

Posted on | by Ross Mason | 3 Comments on Invoking a service method in Mule

Reading Time: 4 minutesAt TSSJS last week I had a conversation with a Mule user that was having a problem invoking more than one method on a service component (just a POJO object). His scenario was that he had a service with multiple inbound endpoints and a service component with multiple methods, some with matching parameter types. Existing Mule users will be aware that Mule will match methods against the parameters received in the current message. Thus is two methods have the same parameters Mule cannot match the method to invoke.
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Announcing Support for Apache Tomcat 6.0.26

Posted on | by Sateesh Narahari | Leave a Comment on Announcing Support for Apache Tomcat 6.0.26
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One of the good things about Apache Tomcat is that it is world’s most efficient and effective application server for running web applications. Legacy Java EE application servers can be more trouble than they are worth due to their inherent complexity and feature bloat.

In January of this year, the Apache Software Foundation released, Tomcat 6.0.24 , which made major improvements in finding and preventing memory leaks in web applications.  Today the ASF released Tomcat 6.0.26, which is an improvement over 6.0.24. (If you are wondering what happened to 6.0.25, that release was deemed not suitable to be released).

Here are highlights of the changes that went into this release since 6.0.24:

– The Manager application has new find leaks functionality, which would help you detect memory leaks of your webapps on stop, reload or undeploy.

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