This document discusses how to access variables in Groovy scripts and Java code within Mule applications. There are two types of variables in Mule: flow variables, which are limited to a specific flow, and session variables, which are global to the entire application. The document provides examples of how to retrieve variable values using different methods like getInvocationProperty() and getSessionProperty() in Groovy, and set variables using setProperty() and setSessionProperty(). It demonstrates retrieving variables set in a Mule flow and also setting variables in Groovy scripts to be accessed in flows.