Logging. An old friend. So critical for a production deployment and so hidden away. Much has been said and done in this area, and we’ve seen both success and total domination by log4j, as well as an abysmal failure of java.util.logging (still hearing the chorus of WTFs and raised eye brows).

With the introduction of Mule 3 the playing field has changed dramatically, but something was still missing. Multiple applications in runtime were still writing to the same single log file.

Read more

Mule 3 GA is getting closer with each day, and brings numerous updates with it. Welcome a new member of the Mule family – a “Mule Application”!

A successful strategy for using Git and SVN together.

The Mule ESB team is happy to report that we published the next milestone on our journey to a final Mule 3 release. The focus of Milestone 3 was mostly on internal architecture changes. Some highlights:

• MuleMessageAdapter has been dropped, replaced with MuleMessageFactory (read more in this post)
• Lifecycle improvements and fixes, although that may affect only users coding against Mule APIs,

Read more

Mule 3 Milestone 3 (3.0.0-M3) is ready to hit the streets, and today we’d like to talk about a fundamental transformation that it has undergone. Mind you, it’s not the only one 🙂

Read more

Just as we’re always driving Mule ESB to make it easier to use, we’re also always taking user feedback and revving the Mule Community website to make it easier to find what you need, when you need it. The Mule Community website has a new look, so check it out!

Read more

A common question Mule users have is ‘How do I perform some actions on Mule startup?’. Well, the fact is one can do it many ways

We’ve been busy working on Mule releases recently, so this blog hasn’t had as much developer voice as it deserves. Working on things like WebSphere MQ can be demanding, which is another reason to appreciate the all-new shiny WebSphere MQ connector in Mule Enterprise 2.2.1. Makes one’s life much much easier.

That is not to say we didn’t cure our (and your) itch for new features. Many great ideas are currently being born,

Read more

It’s great times for the Mule Community with more and more Mule texts coming out. Today we’d like to highlight the just-released DZone Mule Refcard (free registration). It’s a great and concise PDF reference on Mule, and it’s coming from Jos Dirksen himself, the co-author of Open-Source ESBs in Action.

Don’t miss out on the Mule 2: A Developer’s Guide by our long-time friends Peter Delia and Antoine Borg.

Read more

It’s a holiday season, and we’re happy to give you Mule 2.1.2! This little Santa helper features over 50 bugfixes and enhancements. Even better, it’s hot in our documentation department, with a dozen issues resolved there and major work put into schema annotations for seamless configuration reference info lookup. Some other highlights include:

Read more