Mule in Action

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Discovering Mule

Figure 1.1. Point-to-point integration approach: everyone must speak the language of everyone.

Figure 1.2. Application-invasive integration broker approach: everyone must speak the language of the broker.

Figure 1.3. Enterprise service bus approach: the bus speaks the language of everyone.

Figure 1.4. ESB nodes distributed at strategic network locations

Figure 1.5. Mule ESB acting as a mediator between an authoring tool and a publication application

Figure 1.6. A Mule model is the runtime environment into which services are hosted.

Figure 1.7. A Mule service mobilizes different moving parts to process requests.

Figure 1.8. A Mule transport provides all the ESB elements required for receiving, sending, ...