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Mule 2: A Developer's Guide

by Peter Delia, Antoine Borg, Ricston Ltd.

November 2008

Beginner to intermediate

164 pages

2h 47m

English

Apress

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1.1. The Enterprise Service Bus1.2. Mule Features1.3. Enterprise vs. Community Edition1.4. Anatomy of a Mule1.4.1. Installing Mule as a Service (or Daemon)1.4.2. The Design-Time Container1.4.3. Mule 2 Configuration File Structure1.4.4. Service Components1.4.5. Configuring Service Components1.4.6. Endpoints1.4.7. Configuring Global Endpoints1.4.8. Connectors1.4.9. Routers1.4.10. Transformers1.4.11. Complete Mule 2.0 Configuration File1.5. Summary
2.1. Routing Patterns2.1.1. Inbound Routing2.1.2. The Response Routing Pattern2.1.3. Inbound vs. Outbound2.1.4. Routing Options2.2. Summary
3.1. Real-World Scenario3.1.1. Checking In3.1.2. Luggage Handling3.1.3. Airport Interaction3.1.4. Modeling the Solution3.1.5. Modeling Points3.1.6. Implementing a Modeled Application3.2. Summary
4.1. Core Tools and Components4.1.1. Installing Mule4.1.2. The Mule IDE4.2. Creating Your Mule Application4.2.1. Service Components4.2.2. The Mule Configuration File4.2.3. Running Your Mule Application4.2.4. Installing Mule as a Service (or Daemon)4.3. Unit Tests4.3.1. Testing Applications4.3.2. Black Box Testing a Mule Server4.3.3. Creating a Test Case4.3.4. Messages in Mule4.3.5. Communicating with the Mule Server4.3.6. Asserting Output4.3.7. Testing Mule Using JUnit4.4. Summary
5.1. Transport Architecture5.1.1. Connectors and Endpoints5.1.2. A Transport5.1.3. The MessageReceiver Interface5.1.4. The MessageDispatcher Interface5.1.5. Transport Overrides5.1.6. Service Descriptor File5.2. Transports and Their Configuration5.2.1. The Console Transport5.2.2. The Virtual Machine (VM) Transport5.2.3. Processing Queues5.2.4. The File Transport5.2.5. The HTTP Transport5.2.6. The FTP Transport5.2.7. The SMTP Transport5.2.8. The JMS Transport5.2.9. The JDBC Transport5.3. Summary
6.1. Overview6.1.1. Simple Object Access Protocol6.1.2. Mule and Web Services6.2. The CXF Transport6.2.1. From XFire to CXF6.2.2. The CXF Connector6.2.3. Attributes6.2.4. Hosting a CXF Web Service6.2.5. CXF Outbound Endpoint6.3. The Axis Transport6.3.1. Axis Connector Attributes6.3.2. Hosting an Axis Web Service6.3.3. Connecting to an Axis Web Service6.3.4. Invoking Non-Axis Web Services6.4. REST6.5. Summary

7.1. Building a Transformer7.1.1. Transforms: ESB or Service?7.1.2. Introducing AbstractTransformer7.2. Building a Filter7.2.1. Overview7.2.2. Complex to Simple Filter7.2.3. Creating a New Filter7.3. Building a Router7.3.1. Overview7.3.2. MuleEvent Methods7.3.3. Inbound Routers7.3.4. Outbound Routers7.3.5. Extending a Router7.3.6. An Idempotent Router7.4. Summary
8.1. Error Handling and Recovery8.1.1. Mule's Exception Strategy Classes8.1.2. Configuring Exception Strategies8.1.3. Flexible Exception Strategies8.1.4. Exception Strategies—Create Your Own8.1.5. Routing Patterns—Exception Router8.2. Transactions in Mule8.2.1. Single vs. XA Transactions8.2.2. The Transaction Manager8.2.3. Transactional Endpoints8.2.4. Poison Messages8.3. Connection Strategies8.4. Summary

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Chapter 5. Mule Transports

In this chapter we are going to look at a few commonly-used transports and protocols that Mule supports. First, we're going to take a look at the overall architecture of a transport, what classes make up a transport, and how connectors are configured in general.

Transport Architecture

More than 26 transports are supported by Mule and available in the default installation. More are available through the developer community and there is a simple framework for you to develop your own.

Transport protocols are configured in Mule in a set of connector XML tags in the Mule configuration file. Every connector has a name attribute that lets you assign a unique name to each connector. All properties of a connector are defined here; ...