A question I get asked a lot is “what can I do with Mule?” For anyone who has looked at proprietary middleware vendors, ESB is often categorized as a mediation engine and nothing else. They do this to sell more products. Our philosophy is that an integration platform should do a lot more. An integration platform often becomes the central nervous system for applications to talk to, and respond to each other.
As such, you need a platform that covers different use cases and provides and end-to-end solution for those use cases. So this question isn’t just about Mule. It’s “what should I expect from my integration platform?” Today, I’m going to introduce some scenarios :
- Application Orchestration
- API layer
- Legacy System Modernization
- Enterprise Service Bus
- Cloud Integration