Learn about SOA/ESB on Mule at our March 9th Meetup

Mar '09 9 Mon 6:30 PM
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Who organized?
Aleksandar Gargenta

We've been quite fortunate as Ken Yagen (Senior Director of Engineering) from MuleSource, offered to do a presentation on SOA and ESB on Mule's open-source platform. Finally, we get someone to demystify these terms for us and show us some real-world examples! Awesome! Mark your calendars for March 9th, 6:30pm!

The following is Mule's abstract of this presentation:

Using Mule to integrate Disparate IT in the Enterprise and Cloud

More and more companies are investing in SOA/ESB and integration projects. Now IT is being asked leverage virtualization and cloud computing as well to reduce costs while still providing guarantees that performance SLAs will be met. Since companies rarely throw away existing systems, most Java developers need to understand how to build applications around existing or legacy systems in a service-oriented way while also pulling in new cloud services and providing reliability, availability, and scalability.

Even though SOA and ESB terms have been around for some years now, there is still much confusion about what they really mean and how they apply to the problems we are trying to solve today. This session attempts to provide some clarity - through demonstration.

This session will be a practical guide for building an ESB architecture connecting in-house and hosted applications using Mule. Since there are plenty of moving parts, this will only be a minimal introduction to the ESB concept and Mule itself.

Rather than focusing on particular features of one specific project, this session offer attendees a holistic view of implementing an ESB solution using both Mule and other open source products, and will clarify how to approach the design of an ESB solution with some simple rules applicable to most SOA projects.

In this session you will learn:

  • What you should consider when integrating cloud and in-house applications
  • How to use Mule and other technologies when attempting to build and ESB solution for their organization;
  • Simple rules for designing and implementing services;
  • How to use your existing Java development skills to build, or integrate with, an SOA/ESB.

The venue and the drinks for this event will be provided by Marakana, where as the food will be sponsored by TEKsystems.

We'll also be giving away books and other interesting goodies from Sun and O'Reilly, as well as a copy of IntelliJ IDEA from JetBrains.

Make sure you RSVP so that you can reserve your seat.


About Ken Yagen, Senior Director of Engineering

A seasoned engineering leader experienced in developing enterprise software products, Ken has served as founder and VP of Engineering for several startups. Prior to that, he was in a technical leadership role at BEA software on the AquaLogic SOA platform. He developed an industry-leading distributed entitlements solution that is still in use at leading financial institutions worldwide. Ken has also contributed to the development of several industry standards, including SAML and XACML.
At MuleSource, Ken leads up all aspects of engineering on the Mule ESB, MuleHQ and Galaxy SOA Governance products.
Ken holds a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.

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Who attended?

  • 37 attendees
    • “ Great attendance (standing room only) and lots of great questions and discussion. ”
    • “ On one hand, it was a very high level presentation showing the basic ideas of SOA in Mule On the other, the moderator wanted to talk about stuff which was comprihansible only for users who are already familier with the ideas presented there. ”
    • “ I was lucky to get in -- I was on the waiting list until the last minute. The presentation was very good, informative. Many people were asking questions, and I do feel the questions were answered; though, we probably needed a few more hours of just Q&A. This is probably due to the audience not having had much hands-on experience with Mule. After more hands-on, hopefully we can follow-up with more Q&A in the Mule forums / community. For me, it's not so much "if" I will be using an ESB (such as Mule), but more a matter of "when". ”
    • “ Very good presentation to introduce Mule over SOA/ESB. An example at the end gave us a very good understanding about how we could use Mule in an application. ”
    • “ It was very interesting to see their take on the J2EE based ESB approach. Pre-assembled patterns that you can extend is a good approach, as was the information on their current and future functionality around topics such as high availability. ”
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    • Kiran Anantha (+1 guest)

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