Testing Mule 4 Custom Policies Locally

Developing custom polices for Mule 4 can be a challenge since there is no way I've found to perform TDD type development. To be honest I've yet to find a good way to include testing of any policy as part of a MUnit test. If anyone has a way please contact me on Mastodon.

Running Mule With Systemd

Most modern Linux distributions now uses systemd as the init system. However the official documentation for Mule Standalone Runtime currently (2017-06-19) only describes how to use the old SystemV init script style to run the Mule Standalone Runtime as a Unix Daemon.

Web Service Consumer Connector With Mule ESB CE

In this blog I will explain two ways to prepare the payload to be used by the Web Service Consumer when you can not or do not want to use DataMapper or DataWeave. I expect that the reader is familiare with the basics of creating a Mule ESB application and using the HTTP Listner connector aswell as the Web Service Consumer.