Category Archives: Mule

Spring Dependency Injection in Mule FunctionalTestCase

By | December 13, 2015

In this article I will show how to accomplish dependency injection of fields in tests that inherit from the Mule class FunctionalTestCase; both of dependencies to Spring beans and of values from property files. Background On an earlier occasion, I have attempted to use the standard @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class) annotation in order to be able to have Spring… Read More »

Running Out of Diskspace with Mule 3.7

By | October 13, 2015

The other day I ran out of diskspace in a server on which I ran a Mule 3.7 instance. After some searching I found some quite large files in the $MULE-HOME/bin directory which turned out to be heap-dump files. The cause for this turned out to be an additional wrapper parameter that is present in… Read More »

Mule ESB in Docker

By | January 18, 2015

In this article I will attempt to run the Mule ESB community edition in Docker in order to see whether it is feasible without any greater inconvenience. My goal is to be able to use Docker both when testing as well as in a production environment in order to gain better control over the environment… Read More »

Embedded ActiveMQ Broker with Mule

By | June 26, 2014

In this post I will show how an embedded ActiveMQ broker is automatically started when using the broker URL “vm://localhost” in a Mule JMS connector, without any additional configuration, and how to disable this behaviour. I will also look at how to explicitly configure an embedded ActiveMQ broker in a Mule configuration file. As documented… Read More »

Modifying Mule Component Properties Using the Spring PropertyOverrideConfigurer

By | June 3, 2014

For some while I have been thinking about how to be able to develop reusable Mule configuration files containing, for instance, entire flows. Of course I have seen the strategy that uses property files and the Spring PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer to inject different values into Mule components depending on the values from the property files. While providing… Read More »