Mule in Action

Part 2. Running Mule

In part 1, you learned about the fundamentals of Mule. You discovered its philosophy, configuration principles, and major moving parts. You’ve also run examples that exercised the main building blocks of Mule services: transports, routers, transformers, and components. Part 2 will take you further and will guide you through the next steps toward running Mule in a production environment.

As an ESB and an integration platform, Mule supports several very different deployment strategies. In chapter 7, we’ll review these strategies. We’ll also explore the vast subject of deployment topologies and review different approaches for managing your deployments.

Problems happen. As tough as it is, Mule can stumble. This usually translates ...