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; ...

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