Mule ESB vs Anypoint Platform Comparison

i have delivered 6 project till now in Mule ESB, it is really good to see in every release of the ESB mule soft is giving new and enhance features

Like: Its based on Java Technologies. Anypoint studio is based on Eclipse Ide. Scalability of Product. Dislike:Old Mule Esb are buggy and unstable and its dificult to upgrade them to current version. New Versions are pretty good

Mule ESB is very good UI and functionality also good. But in the mule, it is very difficult to identify issues and debugging the issue.

I have experience with other ESB tools, when I am working with Mule ESB it is pretty good, we can work with different connectors, custom codes and testing.

Quick integration of enterprise systems, legacy applications and thick client applications. Easy maintenance of APIs.

Overall, I am happy with Mule ESB which does the job of required integration either in SOAP or REST

It is one of the best available enterprise ESB in the market. From API side, I still prefer Apigee over Mule API. But for ESB, definitely, it will be the first choice.

Must have tool for mule esb development. Drag and drop feature speeds up the development. Also a nice user interface makes it easier to use.

It is very nice ESB to use. Very easy to use. My favorite part in the Mule ESB is the documentation. The documentation is very clear with examples. You need to not spend time to search for good tutorials and blogs to learn Mule, all you need to do us sit back relax and go through the documentation. And the connectors are awesome. What ever you want to connect to, there is a connector in Mule.

Experience is great atleast as of now. Let's see what all is coming my way as I go along using the Mule ESB and Anypoint platform!

Few Advantages that Mule has over other products are :- Mule has a large collection of different connectors to connect and integrate diverse systems. It is said like it can almost connect anything. Mule is very lightweight and easy to use compared to other esb. Since it is mostly Java based, so, it becomes very easy to use and build custom components. Most important is that, Mule is a pure esb, where other products comes with other functionality and platforms and esb is one of the part of the product. (eg WSO2) Mule is graphically based unlike most of other esb, where the flows are mostly configured in XML (Apache Camel or Spring integration) Mule is less expensive compared to most of other products. Even community versions are available, which will not cost you anything. Mule earlier had a problem of its small size of its community. But nowadays, Mule community is expanding like others. Mule, as I mentioned is easy to use. for example, if you want to expose a web service and need to do various transformations with payload, you just need to concentrate on your java implementation classes or you Mule flow. Mule will take care of exposing the service to an endpoint and you don't need to write any code for that. It also has wide range of transformer that will take care of transformation of your payload and also other functionality like orchestration, routing etc and will be easy for you to implement There are more or less other advantages, you can explore more to get it . More or less choosing an esb depends on your requirement and budget.

I have been trying to evaluate various open source Middleware products and Mule is one of them.It looks like an easy-to-use product for ESB developers

Mule esb is a great tool for developing integration services and api based connectivity. It has all the features need for having you own API based ecosystem

Using Mule to create ESB endpoint was so easy. I now have my ColdFusion talking to My PHP servers. Modifying the transport data with the groovy connector was a breeze!

am basically a java background guy , am very new to this technlogy, eventhough i didnt facing much diificulty to learning this.. great

It was a good experience using mule as our integration platform. We were having diverse requirements which entails use of both the ESB as well as the implementation of the APIs. In mule we are having out-of-box connectors for almost every integration pattern which has effectively helped us developing the solutions in optimal timeline.

Its good to have a middle-ware Tool which is easy to transfer files for large data.Still some tools needed to add .

Mule is the most lightweight integration platform available,Mule streaming allows developers to process large messages efficiently.Mule has very good functionality like Orchestration: Composing several existing fine-grained components into a single higher order composite service. This can be done to achieve appropriate "granularity" of services and promote reuse and manageability of the underlying components.Transformation: Data transformation between canonical data formats and specific data formats required by each ESB connector. An example of this would be transforming between CSV, Cobol copybook or EDI formats to either SOAP/XML or JSON. Canoncial data formats can greatly simplify the transformation requirements associated with a large ESB implementation where there are many consumers and providers, each with their own data formats and definitions and many more.Transportation: Transport protocol negotiation between multiple formats (such as HTTP, JMS, JDBC). Note: Mule treats databases like another "service" by making JDBC just another transport (or endpoint) where data can be accessed. It encompasses not only infrastructure but application design as well. Mule ESB Enterprise serves as a great foundation upon which to build such an architecture.

its been about 4 yrs i am using this , i introduced it to the org i am working, so far so good working for us

Easy Deployment of distributed architecture.

It has almost all I need to integrate systems, if there's missing I can just customize one and problem solved.

Mule ESB is the product that you like to work. It easy to use existing connectors as well as we can create our own connectors. supports java and groovy scripts. One part I hate, it has so many bugs in it but fixes patches were provided.

I have now completed the MCD - Integration and API associate online course, which was a good starting point to learn how to use some of the key Mule ESB features. One of the benefits of using Mule ESB is that it is a very lightweight and extensible solution that apart from being a free open source version, it also provide a commercial enterprise version which offers additional functionality and support for the product. Within all the benefits that MuleESB can bring to your integration project, I would like to emphasise 5 key features that have cached my eyes. 1 - Very simple ("one click") installation and intuitive, Eclipse-based tooling; 2 - Simple, drag-and-drop graphical design, which makes your life much easier; 3 - Visual data mapping and transformation. No need to go coding for this, as you can do it visually on Mule ESB UI; 4 - Service flow analyser for rapid debugging; 5 - Around 1500 public and ready to use connectors, which again makes your life easier if you need to integrate with any of these extensive list of free ready to use connectors. Other than this, I would also like to mention the MuleSoft Champions concept, where you can learn more MuleSoft skills (without realising it) and add a spicy competition with your colleagues on trying to get Mule coins and step up in the Mule rankings. :)