Mule in a nutshell
- 2. Mule ESB is a lightweight Java-based enterprise service bus (ESB) and integration platform that allows developers to connect applications together quickly and easily, enabling them to exchange data. Mule ESB enables easy integration of existing systems, regardless of the different technologies that the applications use, including JMS, Web Services, JDBC, HTTP, and more.It enriches the mule message by calling external system or do some transformation to existing payload and save it into some scope of variable like session or outbound or invocation and the transformation happened in en-richer scope doesn't affect the actual payload.
- 3. 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, distributable object broker that can handle interactions across legacy systems, in-house applications, and almost all modern transports and protocols The key advantage of an ESB is that it allows different applications to communicate with each other by acting as a transit system for carrying data between applications within your enterprise or across the Interne
- 4. Mule ESB includes powerful capabilities that include: Service creation and hosting — expose and host reusable services, using Mule ESB as a lightweight service container · Service mediation — shield services from message formats and protocols, separate business logic from messaging, and enable location-independent service calls · Message routing — route, filter, aggregate, and re- sequence messages based on content and rules · Data transformation — exchange data across varying formats and transport protocols
- 5. This is a very simple flow with one-way inbound and outbound endpoints, and which acts as part of an order processing pipeline. This flow uses an enricher to add a state flow variable to the current message with the state that the flow ref returns. The ‘target’ attribute defines how the current message is enriched using a MessageEnricher which uses the same syntax as expression evaluators.
- 6. Design and Development Tools 1. Anypoint Studio: An eclipse based graphical development environment for designing, testing and running Mule flows. It consists of two types of editors for development: Visual editor and XML editor. 2. Anypoint Enterprise Security: It is a suite of security related features for secure access and transactions to Mule applications. 3. Mule Healthcare Toolkit: This kit is provided to process HL7 standard messages used in Healthcare organizations. 4. Mule IDE (now deprecated), which is a set of Eclipse plug-ins for developing, deploying and managing Mule projects.
- 7. Management Tools 1. Mule Management Console: A user interface which provides run time management facility of deployment to the Mule Repository and clusters. 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 management console, a Service registry and higher availability.
- 8. Cloudhub Cloudhub is Mulesoft's Cloud-based integration platform for integration to connect apps, data and devices with integration connectors (like one to Twitter, etc) platform as a service (iPaaS). Extension Mule covers a world of connectivity and message processing with its rich offering of endpoints, transformers and routers. Connecting Endpoints With respect to connectivity, the array of endpoints covers the most widely used communication mechanisms. We don’t stop there however. These connecting endpoints have been extended with our suite of cloud connectors, which allow you to exploit the exponential growth in cloud based software and public APIs. Talking to the likes of Salesforce, Twitter etc. is as simple as using any other endpoint in a Mule flow.
- 9. Transformers and Routers While our vast array of transformation and routing processors satisfy the majority of use cases, our Java processors allow you to implement your own custom integration logic. Likewise our Scripting processors allow you to do the same in Mule Expression Language, Groovy, Python, Ruby, JavaScript,PHP and indeed any language which implements the JSR-223 scripting spec for the JVM. These extension capabilities multiply the power of Mule as an integration platform, which is completely adaptable to the needs of the integration project. Rather than constrain the developer, Mule offers itself as a tool to solve every integration problem with its wealth of out-of-the-box processors and its limitless extensibility.
- 10. DevKit Mule’s powerful extension capability is made even easier with the DevKit, which facilitates the encapsulation of complex business processing logic or any complex interaction with external systems or cloud APIs as a set of message processors which can be presented on Mule Studio´s pallette as yet another out-of-the- box flow building block.
- 11. Thank You All