Schedulers are great for task execution, but they're tough to scale horizontally. Let's use Hazelcast's IMaps, Akka, and CRON expressions to make a more scalable system.
Creating a Maven archetype can be a good way to streamline beginnings of new projects in your company. Check out the guide on how to do it in practice.
One of Mule's powerful features is SOAP Connect, which turns your WSDL into the connector and install in the Mule design palette within less than a few minutes.
By making some changes, appending some properties to log4j.xml, and using custom Java code to connect to the database, we can make logging to a database possible.
We take a look at some code that can help you to read text from an image with your Java application. Possible uses? Making sure your Captcha is doing its job.
Triggering a Mule flow or a sub-flow by sending it a message payload and then using the response payload for your further processing is pretty straightforward.