Appendix C. Graphical tool support
You’ve seen quite a bit of XML configuration throughout the example implementations in this book. Open source products often lack graphical tool support for implementing functionality, but Mule and ServiceMix do provide graphical tool support, each with its own Eclipse-based implementation. In this appendix, we provide a short introduction to both these tools.
The first step is to install Mule IDE 2.0 in your Eclipse environment. If you haven’t already installed Eclipse 3.3.x, do so now. A good installation guide is available on the MuleSource website (http://www.mulesource.org/display/MULEIDE/Mule+IDE+2.0). Note that you have to deselect several parts of the EMF and GMF updates.
When you’ve installed all updates, including the Mule IDE 2.0 update, you’re ready to begin modeling Mule configurations with Mule IDE 2.0. You can start a new Mule IDE 2.0 project by choosing File > New to start the New Project wizard, shown in figure C.1.
