Common Sense Code http://www.commonsensecode.com Applying Common Sense to Development Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:12:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My Dump Truck 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.

]]> http://www.commonsensecode.com/2009/02/13/my-dump-truck/ Welcome to Common Sense Code Welcome to Common Sense Code!  My goal with this blog is to share some common sense solutions to uncommon problems, and hopefully help out some people along the way.

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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