Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring / Mule integration - step 1

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

Ben Alex wrote:

>>I am in the thick of things at work so can't really put 
>>enough thought into this to comment much, but I would prefer 
>>to hold this until after
>>1.0.3 is out...
>>    
>>
>
>I just wanted to chime in here and mention what Ross is working towards is
>strategically very useful for Spring users.
>
>By simply adding Mule (which BTW is now configurable directly from a Spring
>ApplicationContext) Spring users will have the ability to receive events
>from external sources (JMS, DB, HTTP etc), then transform them into native
>ApplicationEvents and publish them in the ApplicationContext, and then send
>ApplicationEvent replies to the ApplicationContext and have Mule send them
>off to external sources. So Mule acts as an adapter between
>ApplicationEvents and the external world. Mule can also be used directly to
>take advantage of the growing library of Mule objects that perform message
>transformation etc.
>
>I recently added some ApplicationEvent support to Acegi Security CVS (login
>success/password fail events), and am about to embark on a Swing GUI built
>on top of Spring where it will be used again. It's nice for these sort of
>internal-to-the-ApplicationContext usages, but if I want to publish a
>CustomerOrder to a remote CustomerOrderConsumer, it will be nice when Mule
>can deliver it for me.
>
>Best regards
>  
>
Sorry, my typo. I meant to say until after _1.0.2_ is out, not 1.0.3!

I think the Mule stuff is very interesting and potentially usefull as 
well. I was just trying to make sure Juergen doesn't try to add any more 
code for 1.0.2.   :-)

Colin