Mule 4: Hello World

Introduction

Many people are interested in learning Mule programming by themselves. When we are ready to start, it’s always better to understand the basics and feel comfortable with the Anypoint Studio IDE and build and run the program with the basic components. Perhaps many of you have written hello world programs. Still, I believe giving basic details is always helpful to the MuleSoft community. I hope beginners will find this useful.

1. Create a new project as shown in the below screenshot. Right click on the left pane of Project Explorer and click on the MuleProject. https://goo.gl/7Wje6M #DataIntegration #ML

API Governance Models in the Public and Private Sector: Part 7

#ICYDK: This is part seven (you can find part six here) of an eight-part series on the Department of Veterans Affairs microconsulting project, “Governance Models in Public and Private Sector.” Providing an overview of API governance to help the VA, “understand, with the intention to adopt, best practices from the private and public sector, specifically for prioritizing APIs to build, standards to which to build APIs, and making the APIs usable by external consumers.” Pulling together several years of research conducted by industry analyst API Evangelist, as well as phone interviews with API practitioners from large enterprise organizations who are implementing API governance on the ground across the public and private sector, conducted by Skylight Digital.

We’ve assembled this report to reflect the interview conversations we had with leaders from the space, helping provide a walkthrough of the types of roles and software architecture being employed to implement governance at large organizations. Then, we walk through governance as it pertains to identifying possible APIs, developing standards around the delivery of APIs, how organizations are moving APIs into production, as well as presenting them to their consumers. Wrapping up with an overview of formal API governance details, as well as an acknowledgment that most API governance is rarely ever a fully formed initiative at this point in time. Providing a narrative for API governance, with a wealth of bulleted elements that can be considered, and assembled in the service of helping govern the API efforts across any large enterprise. https://goo.gl/GjySMF #DataIntegration #ML

Enrichment Pattern in Mule 4

#ICYMI: Content Enricher is definitely a useful integration pattern. It allows easily enriched message content with new data gathered from an external resource. In the vast majority of Mule’s apps, I have been using the Message Enricher Component. Today, I will point out the main differences in Mule 3.x and Mule 4.x regarding this element.

Content Enricher Pattern

When you think about message processing, you have in mind a specific entity. There are times when you don’t have enough data to proceed a message further. As a result, you need some pulling and enriching mechanism. Below, you can see Enricher pattern diagram from enterprise integration patterns site/book. As you can see, the message (before entering Enricher) has smaller content. Then component looks for additional data and appends it to the original message. In consequence, you’ll have an enriched message. https://goo.gl/TnMQU7 #DataIntegration #ML