Chapter 1. Discovering Mule
This chapter covers
- An introduction to enterprise integration
- Building, testing, and deploying your first Mule application
All it takes is a simple request: send this to Salesforce, publish that to Twitter, connect to the inventory mainframe. All of a sudden, your application, which was living a happy digital life in splendid isolation, has to connect to a system that’s not only remote but also exotic. It speaks a different language, or speaks a known language but uses a bizarre protocol, or it can only be spoken to at certain times during the night...in Asia. It goes up and down without notice. Soon, you start thinking in terms of messages, transformation, protocols, and connectors. Welcome to the world of integration!