Introduction:
Mule ESB is a lightweight java-based enterprise service bus and integration platform, allowing developers to quickly and easily connect multiple applications so that they can exchange data.
Mule ESB is easy to integrate with existing heterogeneous systems, including JMS, Web Services, JDBC, HTTP, and so on.
The key feature of ESB is to allow different applications to communicate. It acts as a transportation system to carry data between enterprises or Internet applications.
Mule ESB provides the following powerful capabilities:
Service creation and hosting-expose and host reusable services and use Mule ESB as a lightweight service container
Service mediation-shield services from message formats and protocols, separate business logic from messaging, and enable location-independent service CILS
Message routing-routing, filtering, aggregation, re-sequence based on content and rules
Data conversion-exchange data through some formats and transmission protocols
Prerequisites:
Compatible platform:
Operating System: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2 +, Windows 2000, Windows 2003/2008 Server (32-bit if using the Java Service Wrapper), Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, debian, SUSE), Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Mac OS X
Application Server: Tomcat, Tcat Server, JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, Geronimo and Jetty
Message Server: Any JMS vendor; Active MQ, Open MQ, Rabbit MQ, Mule MQ, tibco EMS, TIBCO Rendezvous, Oracle AQ, and IBM WebSphere MQ
Java: JDK 1.5.x +; Sun, JRockit, IBM, and OpenJDK
Environment: Mac OS X, WebLogic
Download:
Download .zip in windows and .tar.gz in Linux/unix.
Download: http://www.mulesource.org/display/MULE/Download
This article uses: 3.0.0 Community Edition-http://dist.codehaus.org/mule/distributions/mule-standalone-3.0.0.tar.gz
Installation:
Decompress the package to a specific place (for example,/Work/Mule/mule-standalone-3.0.0), set the MULE_HOME environment variable, open the terminal:
Vi/etc/profile
Running example:
Start Mule ESB-<MULE_HOME>/bin/mule
Sh $ MULE_HOME/bin/mule
Copy from <MULE_HOME>/examples/<example> to the deployment directory <MULE_HOME>/apps
