In this 3-day course, you will learn to tap into the power of Mule to easily build powerful network applications that can integrate disparate applications within the enterprise. Aimed at enterprise architects and developers, material includes Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), as well as the Mule architecture. You will also learn how to configure Mule – the key to this powerful tool and how to drive a Mule project. You will also gain the required skills and techniques fundamental to applications development with Mule, such as exception handling and transaction management.

• Introduction, course outline, objectives
• Recap on SOA and ESB - aims of SOA, where ESB fits in
• Overview to Core Concepts
• Introduction to Xml Configuration
• Managing properties and meta information
• Modeling applications in terms of Service Components, Endpoints, Routers and Transformers: Introducing a Real World Application
• Mule APIs: Interacting with Mule using the Callable Interface
• Unit Testing: Testing Mule using JUnit
• Transports and protocols: JMS, HTTP, SOAP, FTP...
• Web Services: Axis and XFire
• Understanding Message Flows
• Messaging Styles: Asynchronous & Synchronous
• Spring Integration: Turn your Beans into Services
• The SEDA Model
• Mule Models
• Error Handling: Exception and Connection Strategies
• Using Transaction Management
• Monitoring Mule Instances using JMX
• Mule Server Notifications