Chapter 5. Routing data with Mule

This chapter covers

  • Content-based routing with Mule
  • Filtering messages
  • Scatter/gather
  • Reliability routing

You’ve probably been exposed to a router at some point in your career. Usually these are of the network variety, like the DSL router in your bedroom or a core router in your data center. In either case, the router’s function is the same: to selectively move around data. Not surprisingly, many of the concepts that underlie network routing are also applicable to routing data between applications. You’ll see in this chapter how to route data using Mule.

You’ve already seen an example of routing in chapter 3, where you saw how the choice router uses a message’s payload to determine which execution path ...

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