Getting Started with iBeans in Eclipse

This screen cast takes you through all the steps necessary to download and set up iBeans, Tomcat and Eclipse. Then there is a walk-through of how to create a simple echo example (using AJAX) and test/debug the application on Tomcat. Yes, this is 11 minutes but it does walk through all the steps and provides a lot of additional detail. Grab yourself a beverage and take the the tour!

iBeans introductory screencast

I just finished an iBeans screen cast that provides an overview of iBeans and provides a detailed tour of one of the examples that ships with the latest distribution. The example demonstrates how to schedule a task and perform bi-directional AJAX communication with the browser to plot geo-coordinates onto a map. This is the first […]

iBeans 1.0-beta-8 Released

The Mulesoft team is pleased to announce the 1.0-beta-8 release of iBeans. What is iBeans? iBeans is a service that simplifies integration for web applications. iBeans exposes its API as a small collection of Annotations which can be used to easily integrate with existing or new applications. iBeans is installed in the Application Container and […]

Selecting Multiple Rows Using a JDBC Inbound Endpoint

The JDBC transport allows you to poll for messages in a table. However, by default the JDBC inbound endpoint splits the record set into individual MuleMessages, and the outbound endpoint only receives a single row at a time. If you want to select multiple rows at a time and process the rows in a single […]

IT Service Management and Tomcat

If you work in IT, you probably heard about IT service management (ITSM) or Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). ITIL is a set of best practices to improve IT effectiveness and quality, and it has gained wider adoption over the last several years. ITSM is at the heart of ITIL and aims to improve availability […]

Recompiling Tomcat May Cause Runtime Problems

It’s a very good thing that Tomcat is open source software. Because it is open, it enjoys broad stand-alone adoption, plus it has been incorporated as part of many other application server products, both commercial and open source. Why reinvent the wheel when Tomcat works great as a generic web container, and the source code is free? Many […]