Category Archives: Mule

Mule ESB and the NoSuchMethodError: org.mule.util.ClassUtils.getClass exception

Posted on 28/01/2013 by Pascal Alma

Currently I am adding some SAML related functionality to a Mule3 implementation of one of our clients. To work with the SAML objects I make use of the OpenSAML library that is provided here as open source. I added the … Continue reading →

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Testing a secured Mule ESB Web Service Proxy with SoapUI

Posted on 23/01/2013 by Pascal Alma

A few weeks ago I received a mail with a request to look into an issue of which I was pretty sure I had solved it before. Since I couldn’t find how I did it back then I decided to … Continue reading →

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Signing and Validating Soap requests with Mule ESB

Posted on 14/01/2013 by Pascal Alma

Some months ago I have been busy implementing a web-service-proxy by using the Mule ESB CE. Although it took some work to get it up setup nicely it is working well now for quite some time. In this post I … Continue reading →

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Implementing HTTPS with Mule ESB

Posted on 27/11/2012 by Pascal Alma

At one of my clients we use the Mule ESB (3.1) to communicate with the outside world. A big difference compared with having Mule running inside the company network is the security. One of the steps to make the communication … Continue reading →

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Use Mule to sync WordPress sites

Posted on 11/07/2011 by Pascal Alma

I recently thought about to create a process with which I could keep two instances of WordPress in sync. I wanted to see if I could do this with Mule. I came up with the following solution: Receive the RSS … Continue reading →

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Unit Test Mule with ActiveMQ defined as datasource

Posted on 25/02/2011 by Pascal Alma

In a previous post I described how you can configure an ActiveMQ connection-factory as datasource in Tomcat. Although this works great in a deployed Mule application you can’t use this technique in your unit tests! So in this post I … Continue reading →

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Using Saddle when riding the Mule ESB

Posted on 12/01/2011 by Pascal Alma

In this post I give my first impressions about Saddle. It has great potential to become an important add-on for everyone using Mule ESB. Continue reading →

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Reloadable XSLT Transformer in Mule

Posted on 19/12/2010 by Pascal Alma

One of the main functions of a Mule ESB application (besides transporting messages) is transforming messages to another format. Nowadays a lot of messages are XML based so a lot of transformations are done by using XSLT, or in Mule … Continue reading →

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Mule and the “Attempted read from closed stream”-exception

Posted on 25/07/2010 by Pascal Alma

When you are using a certain version of Mule ESB you are going to run into an existing bug sooner or later. That isn’t really a problem, I would call it inevitable (at least based on my own experience). The … Continue reading →

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Combining Mule with Altova MapForce

Posted on 03/06/2010 by Pascal Alma

As promised in our previous blog about Altova Mapforce we will show in this post how to combine the result of the generated code of Altova Mapforce with a Mule application. As we have shown before, the Java code that … Continue reading →

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