Common Sense Code http://www.commonsensecode.com Applying Common Sense to Development Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:12:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 My Dump Truck http://www.commonsensecode.com/2009/02/13/my-dump-truck/ http://www.commonsensecode.com/2009/02/13/my-dump-truck/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:11:14 +0000 chrisdg http://www.commonsensecode.com/?p=13 So I’ve been using Mule for at least three years now. It says it’s an ESB, but I liked the description that I read (somewhere, can’t remember where) that said it was the “swiss-army knife” of integration.

Personally, I liken it to a dump truck. It’s not bells and whistles, and it doesn’t have a pretty UI. It just works, plain and simple. And it keeps working. Today I was able to do a proof of concept utilizing XMPP for presence and integration communication, and it took less than half an hour. There is no way I could have done that as quickly with some of the COTS tools I’ve used. Frankly, I would be hard pressed to get some tools to do that at all without major customization.

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Personally, I liken it to a dump truck. It’s not bells and whistles, and it doesn’t have a pretty UI. It just works, plain and simple. And it keeps working. Today I was able to do a proof of concept utilizing XMPP for presence and integration communication, and it took less than half an hour. There is no way I could have done that as quickly with some of the COTS tools I’ve used. Frankly, I would be hard pressed to get some tools to do that at all without major customization.

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A little about myself.  I am a ten year veteran of the corporate world, with my focus in Java development.  I am a proponent of open source, and have introduced multiple open source solutions in a variety of companies large and small.  My latest project is a large scale web service infrastructure implementation based primarily on Apache CXF, Mule, Spring, and Jetty.  In addition, I am also spending a healthy amount of time working with GWT.

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A little about myself.  I am a ten year veteran of the corporate world, with my focus in Java development.  I am a proponent of open source, and have introduced multiple open source solutions in a variety of companies large and small.  My latest project is a large scale web service infrastructure implementation based primarily on Apache CXF, Mule, Spring, and Jetty.  In addition, I am also spending a healthy amount of time working with GWT.

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