This 3-day course aimed at architects has been developed under the guidance of Ross Mason, founder and Chief Architect of the Mule project. The course will provide you with a thorough grounding in architecting integration solutions using Mule. Additionally, you will learn best practices, industry approved patterns, plus an introduction to further topics including how to address security, scalability and fault tolerance. Architects, developers and team leaders who need to learn how to architect and design enterprise integration solutions using Mule will benefit from this course.

• Introduction, course outline, objectives
• Recap on SOA and ESB - aims of SOA, where ESB fits in
• Overview to the Mule Architecture
• Introdcution to Core Concepts
• Introduction to XML Configuration
• Modelling applications in terms of Service Components, Endpoints, Routers and Transformers: Introducing a Real-World Application
• Introduction to Architecting Enterprise Solutions
• System, Process and Data Identification
• Integration Profile
• Map and Model Data Flows
• Security and Mule Topology
• Message Formats
• Component Identification and Implementation
• Quality of Service and Fault Handling
• Performance Requirements
• Redundancy Requirements
• Test Use Cases
• Configurations