From the entire MuleSource team -- thank you to all of the presenters, attendees and other friends who joined us at MuleCon 2007.   In the section below, you will find downloads of the presentations that were delivered during the event.  One of our attendees (Joseph A. di Paolantonio) blogged the event in detail.  You can also find some recap fodder on the MuleSource blog.

If you have any suggestions or requests for future MuleCons, please email us info@mulesource.com.

MuleCon 2007 Presentations

User Testimonial - HR Block, Dan Cahoon and Chris Ginn.pdf

Dan Cahoon and Chris Ginn are senior architects at mega tax preparer H&R Block. Cahoon and Ginn described the IT rigors demanded by the 3-month tax season — i.e. the extremely limited window that tax preparers have to work with to touch their customers, and the heavy workload that must be managed / routed / etc. during that timeframe.  H&R Block is working on rolling out a massive "Virtual Tax System" — which will introduce the ability to move work around to tax pros at their more than 13,000 locations. It's a very complex real-time, asynchronous communications platform that they're building, and Mule is in the middle to enable all of the moving parts (collaboration software, document management platform, workflow, etc.) to talk to each other.

User Testimonial – Bouvet, Rune Peter Bjornstad.ppt

Rune Peter Bjornstad (from Bouvet AS in Norway) presented "GeoMail" — a really cool custom AJAX connector he'd created on top of Mule and Spring (Live Updates). It basically allowed him to mash up Google Maps with IP addresses from his inbound emails — and to visualize the international geographies where his emails were coming in from. It was a very clever demo, and Rune gave some good insight into the architecture and REST web services usage in the project. Rune has been a friend of the Mule project for quite some time and leads some great Java user conferences in Norway.

User Testimonial - LeapFrog, Eugene Ciurana.pdf

Eugene Ciurana (currently director of systems infrastructure at toy manufacturer, Leap Frog Enterprises ... and formerly a senior enterprise architect at Walmart.com) led off the use cases. If you've never caught one of Eugene's talks at TheServerSide Java Symposium or otherwise, he's a very lively speaker and really doesn't pull any punches WRT saying what he thinks about the various architecture and technology choices out there.  Eugene's talk focused on how Mule was used in a successful reference implementation for a new web site at a "major e-commerce company." The site needed to handle 50 million hits a day (and six million purchase sessions per day, most of which compressed into peak times). Eugene and his team used Mule to route all messages to the ecommerce suite, the order capture system, 3rd party web services, single sign on, a CRM system, a CMS system, a product information system, a B2B / EDI system, and a BPEL engine.  After walking through the needs that led his team to Mule (other proprietary approaches were way too expensive, and other open source approaches were "too JBI-centric") ... Eugene discussed the cycles required to get everything up and running (2 days to download and learn Mule, initial integration took 1 day).  Today, Eugene is working with Mule as the ESB backbone (to bridge from an "oldish" ecommerce suite) to a new "download store" at LeapFrog that will allow for online purchase, registration, promotions, downloads and full integration with back-end third party apps.

User Testimonial - HealthTrio, Art Gramlich.pdf

Art Gramlich from HealthTrio then described the integration challenges in healthcare — which has its own unique custom codes and tons of legacy systems that need to exchange data. Why Mule for HealthTrio? According to Art, b/c it's (compared to other ESBs): (1) lightweight and fast; (2) easy to integrate; (3) easy to expand, customize, etc.; (4) encourages re-use. In explaining what led him to Mule, Art talked about how other ESBs and integration solutions are often themselves so complex, tough to manage and tough for developers to get their hands on — that they themselves present EJB-like restrictions and frustrations. Mule has a number of production users in the health industry, but we need to start surfacing more use cases. Thanks to Art for sharing his story.

User Testimonial - Scripps Networks, David Elam.pdf

In what preceded the most wild and free-form discussion of the day, David Elam from Scripps (owners of HDTV, the Food Network, and other channels that we Tivo incessantly at my house) described some integration challenges / scenarios — then enlisted the developer attendees to help him brainstorm / white board some possible approaches with Mule. It became a very interactive session with about 30 Java developers huddled around a white board.
 
 

Mule Roadmap Discussion - Ross Mason.pdf
Mule and Spring - Ross Mason.pdf
 
 

Mule and BPM, BPEL - Travis Carlson.pdf
Mule and OSGi - Travis Carlson.pdf
 

Mule Training – Ricston.pdf 

  

MuleHQ – Doug MacEachern, Hyperic.ppt