concept Mule IDE in category esb
This is an excerpt from Manning's book Open-Source ESBs in Action: Example Implementations in Mule and ServiceMix.
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.
Now, switch to the Source tab of the Mule IDE to look at the Mule configuration XML file. The XML configuration is similar to the configurations in this book’s examples.
At the time of writing, the Mule IDE 2.0 is in its early stages, but you can see how easy it is to design a Mule configuration instead of typing XML yourself. The Mule IDE also provides support for deploying the Mule configuration on a Mule container. You can find more information on the Mule IDE website. But note that it’s a work in progress—not everything will work as expected just yet.