Jos Dirksen has been working with Java and J2EE applications for more than six years as a software architect. The last couple of years, his focus topics have been open source, security, and quality. He has worked with various open source and commercial integration solutions, mostly in the government and the health care areas. Jos has a lot of project experience working with Mule, Apache Synapse, and Apache Axis2 and has also completed projects based on the integration tooling from IBM. Jos regularly gives presentations on open source, Mule, and other related topics.
This article is based on the book Open Source ESBs in Action: Implementation
Examples in Mule and ServiceMix scheduled to print September 30, 2008. This
article is courtesy of Manning Publications. The ebook is available and sold
exclusively through Manning Publications.
When you work with open source ESBs, you can use other tools and frameworks
to help you solve common problems. Spring is one of the tools that extends
the basic functionality of the ESBs Mule and ServiceMix and makes solving
integration problems a lot easier. Spring is a component framework that makes
it easy to work with Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs). We will use this
framework to create and configure our custom components. Spring is also
integrated out-of-the-box in both ServiceMix and Mule 2, so having a basic
understanding of this technology is very useful.
Spring was started in 2002 with Rod J... (more)
Jos Dirksen has been working with Java and J2EE applications for more than six years as a software architect. The last couple of years, his focus topics have been open source, security, and quality. He has worked with various open source and commercial integration solutions, mostly in the government and the health care areas. Jos has a lot of project experience working with Mule, Apache Synapse, and Apache Axis2 and has also completed projects based on the integration tooling from IBM. Jos regularly gives presentations on open source, Mule, and other related topics.
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