In this article I will talk about why I believe that the enterprise service bus is unsuitable when you have, or expect, more than a handful of integration scenarios and my thoughts about in what direction to look instead. In addition I will add in some thoughts and experiences in related areas. I will not… Read More »
In this second article about Message Cowboy, the tool to perform scheduled file moves and message transfers, I will talk a bit about how to use the program. Configuration Properties Using the configuration properties, we can configure which database will be used, whether to start an embedded ActiveMQ broker and some additional aspects of database… Read More »
Round ’em messages up and bring them home! Message Cowboy is a standalone integration program that allows for scheduling of tasks that transfer files or messages from one directory, JMS queue etc to another directory, JMS queue etc. Messages may be transformed or processed in some other way before being delivered to the destination. Some… Read More »
In this post I will show a proof-of-concept for a dynamic HTTP proxy implemented using Mule. Principle The proxy forwards HTTP request using the context and relative path parts of the request URL to determine the server and port to which the request is to be forwarded. In the example in this article a SOAP… Read More »
My very first blog post described how to unit test Mule transformers that access session and/or invocation scoped message properties. To accomplish that I developed a new, better, Mule message. In this post I will describe how this new Mule message class can be extended to allow for session and/or invocation scoped message properties to… Read More »
Problem When attempting to unit-test a Mule transformer that need access to session- or invocation-scoped message properties, I found the result to be an IllegalStateException that told me: Detected an attempt to set an invocation or session property, but a MuleEvent hasn’t been created using this message yet. I managed to trace the problem to… Read More »