Chapter 4. Routing data with Mule
In this chapter
- Understanding inbound and outbound routing
- Filtering with routers
- Using inbound routers
- Using outbound routers
You’ve probably been exposed to a router at some point in your career. Usually these are of the network variety—like the DSL router in your bedroom or the core router in your data center. In either case, the router’s function is the same: to selectively move around data. Not surprisingly, many of the concepts that underlie network routing are also applicable to routing data between applications. We’ll see in this chapter how multicasting, static routing, forwarding, and filtering are just as applicable to enterprise application integration as they are to networking devices.
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