How muleworks
- 2. Layers : There are three layers in the architecture : The application layer, The integration layer, The transport layer.
- 4. General types of tasks you can perform to configure and customize your Mule deployment: Service Component Development: Developing or reuse existing POJOs, services, Cloud Connectors, or Spring beans that contain the business logic and will consume, process, or enrich messages. Service Orchestration: Configuring message processors, routers, transformers, and filters that provide the service mediation and orchestration capabilities required to allow composition of loosely coupled services using a Mule Flow. Integration: A key requirement of service mediation is decoupling services from the underlying protocols. Mule provides transports to allow dispatching and receiving messages on different protocol connectors. These connectors are configured in the Mule configuration and then can be referenced from the orchestration layer.
- 5. Create a Service Component : A service component is a class, web service, or other application that contains the business logic you want to plug in to the Mule service bus. You can use any existing : Java class, Spring bean, Groovy script, Cloud Connector, or create a new component. Your service component does not need to contain any Mule-specific code. All the Mule-specific instructions will be configured on the service that wraps the service component.
- 6. Configure the Mule Instance : The Mule configuration file allows you to configure all the elements you need in your Mule instance. <configuration> element is used to set global configuration options such as the threading profile. Then define the connectors, transformers, and endpoints to be used in different flows. Lastly, configure flows or service models, which act as containers for services and orchestration elements and apply settings such as the queue profile and error handling to all the services in that flow or service model.
- 7. Configure the Flow : Configure a flow using the <flow> element in the Mule configuration file. The flow creates a composition around the service component(s) that will allow to define how messages are routed, filtered, transformed and enriched before or after processing by one or a series of service components. Flows are more flexible and robust than the traditional service model in Mule, allowing a more natural and compact means of describing service orchestration.
- 8. Configure the Service : Service can be configured within a <model> element in the Mule configuration file. The service points to the service component, routers, filters, and transformers. It also specifies the endpoint on which this service will receive messages and the outbound endpoint where messages will go next.
- 9. Message Processors : Message Processors are the basic building blocks in Mule and in fact, components, routers, filters, and transformers are all message processors. There are also other special message processors that do not fall in one of those categories. These include a number of specialized modules like CXF and Jersey Web Services, BPM, as well as a few specialized integration elements like <poll>, <content-enricher>, and <logger>. Custom message processor can also be created easily.
- 10. Routers : Router types : Inbound routers Outbound routers Default routers (many) Inbound routers specify how messages are routed to a service. Outbound routers specify how messages are routed after the service has finished processing them. There are several default routers that come with Mule that you can use, or you can create your own routers.
- 11. Filters : Filters specify conditions that must be met for a message to be routed to a service. There are several default filters that come with Mule that you can use, or you can create your own filters.
- 12. Transformers : Transformers convert incoming payload data to the type required by the service component. After the service has finished processing the message, they can also convert the message to a different type as needed by the outbound transport. There are several default transformers you can use, or create your own.
- 13. Transports and Connectors : Mule provides default transports for many different channels, including : File, FTP, HTTP, JMS, JDBC, Quartz, and many more. Transports communicate with the channel using a connector. There are also many community-contributed transports and Cloud Connectors on Mule Forge.
- 14. Cloud Connectors : Cloud Connectors are actually message processors that are used to speak to application APIs over existing transports - almost always HTTP. Cloud Connectors typically connect SaaS applications, Social media, Cloud infrastructure services, Cloud-based data services.
- 15. Extend Mule : Mule provides a complete set of APIs for extending Mule. Typical custom extensions include: Cloud Connectors Transports Custom Message Processors Custom Transformers Configuration Patterns
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