Mule ESB - An Enterprise Service Bus

1. AN ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS
Mohammed Fazuluddin

2. TOPICS
• Mule ESB Overview
• Mule ESB Features
• Mule ESB Architecture
• Mule ESB Some Important Components
• Mule ESB Pro’s and Con’s

3. MULE ESB OVERVIEW
• Mule ESB is a lightweight and highly scalable Java-based enterprise
service bus (ESB) and integration platform provided by Mule Soft.
• ESB stands for Enterprise Service Bus which is basically a middleware
tool for integrating various applications together over a bus-like
infrastructure.
• Fundamentally, it is an architecture designed to provide a uniform
means of moving work among integrated applications.
• In this way, with the help of ESB architecture we can connect different
applications through a communication bus and enable them to
communicate without depending on one another.

4. MULE ESB OVERVIEW
• Mule ESB allows the developer to connect applications easily and
quickly. Regardless of various technologies used by applications,
Mule ESB enables easy integration of applications, enabling them to
exchange data.
• Mule ESB has the following two editions −
• Community Edition
• Enterprise Edition
• An advantage of Mule ESB is that we can easily upgrade from Mule
ESB community to Mule ESB enterprise because both the editions are
built on a common code base.

5. MULE ESB FEATURES
• It has simple drag-and-drop graphical design.
• Mule ESB is capable of visual data mapping and transformation.
• User can get the facility of 100s of pre-built certified connectors.
• Centralized monitoring and administration.
• It provides robust enterprise security enforcement capabilities.
• It provides the facility of API management.
• There is secure Data Gateway for cloud/on-premise connectivity.

6. MULE ESB FEATURES
• It provides the service registry where all the services exposed
into the ESB are published and registered.
• Users can have control through a web-based management
console.
• Rapid debugging can be performed using service flow analyzer.

7. MULE ESB ARCHITECTURE

8. MULE ESB ARCHITECTURE
• ESB architecture enables us to integrate different applications
where each application can communicate through it. Following
are some guidelines on when to use ESB −
• Integrating two or more applications
• Integration of more applications in future
• Using multiple protocols
• Message routing
• Composition and consumption

9. MULE ESB ARCHITECTURE

10. MULE ESB SOME IMPORTANT
COMPONENTS
• Components are message processors which execute business
logic on messages.
• They enable you to perform specific actions without writing any
Mule-specific code.
• You can drop a component – a POJO, Spring bean, Java bean, or script
– into a flow to perform almost any customized task within your Mule
application.
• For example, you can use a component to verify that items on an
invoice are in stock in a warehouse, or to update a database with a
customer’s order history.

11. MULE ESB SOME IMPORTANT
COMPONENTS
• Scripting Components:
• Mule includes several scripting components that you can use in flows to
execute custom business logic.
• These components enable you to drop a chunk of custom-written logic
into your flow to act upon messages.

12. MULE ESB SOME IMPORTANT
COMPONENTS
• Web Service Components:
• Also included are two components to facilitate exposing, consuming,
and proxying Web services.
• The CXF component leverages the CXF framework Mule uses to support
SOAP Web services; the REST component works with Jersey to support
RESTful Web services; both are bound to HTTP.

13. MULE ESB SOME IMPORTANT
COMPONENTS
• HTTP Static Resource Handler:
• Further, Mule provides an HTTP static resource handler to facilitate
working with calls over HTTP.
• Use the HTTP Static Resource Handler to easily serve up static content
when called.

14. MULE ESB SOME IMPORTANT
COMPONENTS
• Other processors Grouped Under Components:
• Use a Logger component to log activities in the flow as they occur.
• Use an Expression component to evaluate a particular expression upon a
message in a flow.
• Use an Invoke component to invoke the method of an object specified
with a Mule expression.
• Use an Echo component to return the payload of a message as a call
response.

15. MULE ESB SOME IMPORTANT
COMPONENTS
• Other processors Grouped Under Components:
• Use a Flow Reference component to access another flow from within a
flow.
• Use a Batch Execute component to kick off processing of a batch job.

16. MULE ESB PRO’S AND CON’S
• Pros:
• Connector Development Kit
• Light-weight. Scaling down - quick point-to-point integrations. To the
Cloud - CloudHub.
• Anypoint Platform has a Wide range of enterprise connectors are key to
its integration success.
• Ease of use, easy to learn, quality and range of out of the box
connectors, overall completeness of the solution.

17. MULE ESB PRO’S AND CON’S
• Cons:
• Processes monitoring, task schedule
• -Fewer features in connectors but not source stopper
• Not as robust in handling large data volumes, Informatics is better in
that respect.
• Sometimes error messages are cryptic and need basic knowledge of Java
Spring to sort them out.

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