Mule RESTpack
March 31st, 2008I’m sitting here at MuleCon in San Francisco today. Its pretty cool to see 200+ people here to learn about whats going on with Mule and to connect with many friends from accross the world.
One of the things that we’re launching today is a product I’ve been hacking on for the last couple months - the Mule RESTpack. What is it? Its really two components:
1. Documentation geared at helping Mule developers build RESTful architectures with Mule. (I still recommend that you go find the RESTful web services book!). This is still being expanded - if you see a missing topic, please let me know.
2. A series of connectors to help developers implement RESTful services. Included currently are connectors for Abdera, Jersey, and Restlet.
I think this is quite important offering for us. Many developers are struggling to figure out how to do RESTful integration. It is now significantly easier for people to do so via these connectors. It also says we’re committed to REST and helping people build RESTful services. I believe we’re the first ESB vendor to really do this.
We’ve pushed out the first set of milestones for Mule 2.0.0-RC3. Now that Mule 2.0.0 final is out (more on that later), we’ll be pushing out 1.0 releases of the connectors later this week.
Check it out and let us know your feedback!
March 31st, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Hi Dan, nice to know about this RESTpack.
I’ve been developing some RESTFul services for several months now, and I’ve learned a lot during this process.
I’ll certainly take a look in the RESTpack soon and see what you guys are doing. I still think RESTful services lack some productive products for complicated stuff, so this might be a great start. Some integrations using the Abdera and Jersey connectors could be very handy. Very nice to see all this in an open source product. Congrats.