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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

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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 6. Web Services in Mule

Another set of transports in use in Mule are those related to web services. First we're going to see how Mule can host or connect to web services using the new CXF transport. Mule still also includes support for Axis, but the default transport for web services is CXF; it replaces the XFire transport, which in Mule 2.0 has been moved to MuleForge.

We do recommend using CXF for web services unless your project requires that you use the RPC/Encoded method. If this is the case then Apache Axis is the way to go. We'll examine the features inside this transport in the second part of this chapter.

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Web services are nothing more than services that are available over a network—be it an internal network or the Internet—that ...

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