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(More customer reviews)Nobody has reviewed Mule in Action so let me be the first. Overall I can recommend this book for an engineer tasked with implementing an integration project using Mule. It will save you a ton of time getting comfortable assembling the many moving parts of this beast. That is, as long as you are already comfortable with JMS, web services or whatever other technology stack you're messing with.
The subject matter is obviously very dry, but the authors do a fine job of presenting the material in a readable, but very technically accurate way. They use the case study of a fictional solution as service outfit called Clood, to illustrate scenarios in a more concrete way. This technique is effective, although an appendix with an overall description of Clood's requirements and design would have been helpful.
I'm giving this a 4 because of what it lacks: a deeper introductory section. The concept level overview is fine, but after that, there needs to be a breadth first tutorial outlining how to start up and implement a simple, but non-trivial example application. A scenario that reads data from a file, passes through a transformer, a filter, and then route to a couple of outbound endpoints (JMS and WS perhaps) would have really broken the ice for me. As written, you go directly from deploying a pre-made echo sample that ships with mule, to the nitty-gritty sections cataloging the connectors, routers, transformers, etc. I found myself bouncing all over the book trying to implement a simple, but non-trivial example. But maybe that's just my learning style talking, which tends to be impatient.
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