Part 3. Traveling further with Mule

Although all the fundamentals of Mule have been covered in parts 1 and 2, we’re not done yet with our exploration of all the good things Mule can do for you! This last part of the book will bring additional bits of knowledge and best practices in order for you to travel further with Mule.

Chapter 12 will be the most code-intensive of this book; in it, we’ll delve into the API of Mule by looking at some of its key classes. We’ll detail the Mule client and its numerous use cases, the different contexts from which you can extract a lot of information, and the notification and interceptor frameworks. We’ll also discuss your different options when it comes to thoroughly testing your integration application.

MuleSoft has made it very easy to extend Mule by providing a toolkit (DevKit) that streamlines the creation of custom connectors for Mule. In chapter 13, you’ll learn how to create a feature-rich connector using this toolkit.

We’ll close this book with a review of the techniques that can be used to run long-lasting business processes and scheduled tasks on Mule. Chapter 14 will also cover two popular approaches for enhancing the business capacities of Mule: complex event processing and business rules execution.