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MuleSoft launches iBeans integration technology

By David Worthington

September 22, 2009 — MuleSoft has introduced an integration technology called iBeans that it says will help Web application developers do task-based integrations for projects where top-down enterprise architecture is not required.

iBeans (short for integration beans) is a container that runs inside of Apache Tomcat, Tcat Server and the Mule enterprise service bus (ESB), said Ross Mason, founder and CTO of MuleSoft. iBeans was formally introduced today.

It also works with open-source frameworks, including JavaServer Faces, Spring and Struts, but is not limited to supporting just Java. Groovy, JRuby and Scala may be used as well.

"It's a simple annotations-based API that describes how to talk to the service instead of doing the talking itself. There is no message routing," Mason explained. "Newcomers use us for simpler integrations and end up tripping themselves up using ESB. It is not the tool for the job they are trying to do."

If developers start out using iBeans, and then decide to build out a complete architecture using an ESB, there is an upgrade path, Mason said. "Everything you have done so far will work with Mule. The Mule ESB is an iBeans container."

iBeans containers connect Web applications with other applications and external data sources via Web Services, RSS feeds, RESTful services, AJAX events and message queues. MuleSoft has already created iBeans for Amazon EC2, eBay, Facebook, Flickr, Gmail and Twitter.

MuleSoft has licensed the technology under the open-source Common Public Attribution License. "We are hoping that people submit back to the community, and that they pick up the less obvious ones," Mason said.

iBeans is hosted on a community website called iBeans Central.

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