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MuleSoft releases proprietary JMS server

By David Worthington

January 20, 2010 — (Page 1 of 2)
MuleSoft, the company that produces the open-source Mule ESB, has licensed a proprietary Java Message Service (JMS) server to provide a more reliable commercial messaging solution for its customers, leading an analyst to question its commitment to open-source development.

MuleSoft's version of that product, called Mule MQ, became generally available Tuesday for US$4,400 per CPU; support packages are available for a separate charge.

The company chose to license a JMS server from an unnamed OEM because its customers were encountering reliability problems with Apache ActiveMQ, said CTO Ross Mason. MuleSoft customers had previously used ActiveMQ.

"There were problems with clustering. It doesn't cut it, and no one supports it," Mason explained. "We took the OEM's JMS Server and added some extra bells and whistles. We spent months making it a fine-tuned product."

Performance was MuleSoft's primary focus, he said, claiming that Mule MQ achieve up to five times the performance of ActiveMQ for some use cases.

The server includes integrated management and monitoring tools.

Mule MQ is compliant with the JMS 1.1 specification and is deployable as a standalone messaging server or embedded in a MuleSoft iBeans application container, according to the company.

iBeans is a container that runs inside of Apache Tomcat, MuleSoft's Tcat Server (a commercial edition of Tomcat), and the Mule ESB. MuleSoft introduced iBeans in September.

iBeans and Mule ESB are open-source projects, but Mule MQ is the second closed-source product that the company is selling, along with Mule Data Integrator.

MuleSoft's recent embrace of closed-source software prompted Burton Group research director and vice president Anne Thomas Manes to question whether it was transitioning away from being an open-source middleware company.

"Except for Mule ESB, all Mule products are free for development and pre-production, but not for production," Manes said. "Its tagline is no longer 'The open-source middleware company.' " Manes added that it also changed its named from MuleSource to MuleSoft.

MuleSoft had the option to build a scalable messaging server around Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), an open messaging specification, but opted to use a proprietary solution, Manes noted.

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Comments

01/21/2010 01:42:24 PM EST

ActiveMQ is supported by both FuseSource and SpringSource - both of which have hundreds of enterprise customers using it. FuseSource and SpringSource both have very successful open integration projects that compete with Mule.

United KingdomRob Davies

01/21/2010 05:55:24 PM EST

I am keen to understand how the performance claims made in the MuleMQ press release can be substantiated and verified independently. For example it is claimed that persistent messaging is several times faster than ActiveMQ. But, unless the code is open source how can anyone check that MuleMQ is writing messages to disk properly? It is very common for messaging vendors to claim 'persistence' when this is only partly true, and this can cause problems for customers. At RabbitMQ we try very hard to be clear and upfront about how we do persistence - it is important. Cheers alexis richardson RabbitMQ

United Kingdomalexis

01/22/2010 10:47:21 AM EST

The OEM is my-channels (http://www.my-channels.com/) and the product is called Nirvana. This product is quite old but did never play any role in the JMS market. Why? ;-) Ask yourself... Why should someone pay $4400/cpu plus support for that? I think, Nirvana was the cheapest Mule could get to have a complete ESB stack to prepare a "SpringSource" or a "Jboss".

GermanyAndreas Mueller

01/31/2010 05:50:18 PM EST

Andreas, we do indeed OEM Nirvana. It was chosen since is a mature and proven product with a large number of financial institutions relying on it to deliver real time data to a wide range of clients. We tested a lot of different JMS servers before selecting Nirvana, some didn't make make past the benchmark testing.

United StatesRoss Mason

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