Author Archives: Pascal Alma

About Pascal Alma

Pascal started as an Oracle Developer in 1997 and developed numerous applications with Oracle Designer/Developer and PL/SQL. Since 2001 Pascal becomes more and more active with the development of software at the Java/J2EE platform. Nowadays Pascal is a senior JEE Developer/ Architect and has a lot of experience with several open source initiatives/ frameworks especially within the Enterprise Integration area. Besides these technical skills Pascal is a big Scrum enthusiastic.

Setup Citrus for testing Mule ESB

Posted on 15 April 2011 by Pascal Alma

Recently, I ran into an open-source test framework called Citrus. Citrus supports you in testing message interfaces in enterprise applications. Manual testing effort as well as coding mocks and simulators are not necessary. Instead Citrus enables integration testing in an … Continue reading →

TcpTunnelGui: maybe old but still useful

Posted on 8 April 2011 by Pascal Alma

Although the TcpTunnelerGui has been around for a while (for about 10 years now) it is still helping me out in several situations. The only thing I keep forgetting is where to get it and what the exact syntax is … Continue reading →

Removing DiffGram element in web service messages

Posted on 27 March 2011 by Pascal Alma

Some time ago I was asked to review existing web services for a customer. The main thing I noticed was that they were using Microsoft’s diffgram elements and attributes in their input and output messages. I was not familiar with … Continue reading →

Using parameters with XSLT in Mule

Posted on 4 March 2011 by Pascal Alma

Recently I got into a situation where I had to put ‘metadata’ values (which were part of the Mule Message) into the XML result of an XSLT transformer. Let me explain the situation with an example. Imagine you have an … Continue reading →

Unit Test Mule with ActiveMQ defined as datasource

Posted on 25 February 2011 by Pascal Alma

In a previous post I described how you can configure an ActiveMQ connection-factory as datasource in Tomcat. Although this works great in a deployed Mule application you can’t use this technique in your unit tests! So in this post I … Continue reading →

Combining ActiveMQ, Tomcat and Mule ESB

Posted on 17 January 2011 by Pascal Alma

This post describes how we managed to use standalone ActiveMQ (v5.2.0) as JNDI datasource in our Mule ESB application deployed in Apache Tomcat(v6.0). If you are still with me after reading this first line then I may assume you know … Continue reading →

Using Saddle when riding the Mule ESB

Posted on 12 January 2011 by Pascal Alma

In this post I give my first impressions about Saddle. It has great potential to become an important add-on for everyone using Mule ESB. Continue reading →

Using Mule EE Retry Policies

Posted on 7 January 2011 by Pascal Alma

At a project for one of our customers we migrated from Mule CE to Mule EE edition (version 2.2.7). The customer had various good reasons to do this and it offered us new functionalities in Mule ESB to use. One … Continue reading →

Reloadable XSLT Transformer in Mule

Posted on 19 December 2010 by Pascal Alma

One of the main functions of a Mule ESB application (besides transporting messages) is transforming messages to another format. Nowadays a lot of messages are XML based so a lot of transformations are done by using XSLT, or in Mule … Continue reading →

Putting Scrum into practice

Posted on 12 December 2010 by Pascal Alma

Although we at Redstream are developing software in an agile way for years we recently started to do it the Scrum way. We already knew the theory about Scrum but we really got excited when we attended to the ScrumMaster … Continue reading →

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