Mule in Action

Chapter 13. Using the Mule API

In this chapter

• Communicating with the MuleClient
• Using context objects to interact with Mule
• AOP with component interceptors
• Leveraging the notification framework

The previous 12 chapters of this book should’ve convinced you that a lot can be achieved with Mule with minimal coding, or at least without any Mule-specific code to write. For example, we’ve seen that Mule goes to great lengths to let you reuse your existing business logic as-is. This is great news because no one wants to write code that’s coupled to a particular framework, as it creates a potential implementation lock-in and weakens the code by making it sensitive to API changes.

But there are times when it’s worth considering the trade-off between ...