Hi, I'm currently in the process of evaluating both ServiceMix and Mule for the company I work for. At the moment there are quite a few systems which share information by file, triggered by scripts and other methods. We're starting to get more 3rd party products now and things are getting very complex, not to mention error prone. Considering the future we've decided our best bet will be using an ESB. But now to choose, ServiceMix or Mule.
Personally I found Mule a lot easier to configure. I was up and running, changing configurations and writing components a lot faster than with ServiceMix. Things just seemed more logical. I've tried going through the ServiceMix examples/documentation but they seem to be lacking/inconsistent. I really want to give ServiceMix a fair evaluation since I've read quite a few good things about it and the JBI spec is likely to have a big impact. Just let me make clear that I believe both products are very solid and I'm not looking for another flame war. That leaves me with a few questions: * are there any real world/more complex examples of using ServiceMix? * has anyone compared both products and found problems in certain areas with either one? * how do the Mule and ServiceMix file bindings compare? (we're likely to use quite a few files still although I'd rather get rid of them but certain applications don't really support other interfaces) Btw, the JBI spec doesn't concern me that much right now. Although I think it will be very useful in the future we won't be needing it right now specifically. Mule has a Mule-JBI version underway so JBI won't be a problem either way if and when we'll start using it. Of course if I need the a JBI container to use some very helpful JBI components that would be another story but looking at the amount of transports Mule supports I don't see a problem. At the moment I'm leaning towards Mule. Not because that it's "better" than ServiceMix, most things seem to be possible in both of the products, but because Mule fits my thinking better. This is very personal though, it's the same with me and using Intellij Idea. I've tried Eclipse a dozen times but can't stand it and keep running back to Idea although they're both great editors. Eclipse just seems to get in my way instead of helping me. Maybe I've completely overlooked things and I'm missing some very important ServiceMix possibilities. Please enlighten me then. You're never too old to learn :) And keep up the good work with ServiceMix, there seem to be quite a few happy users and noticed it offers integration with some other very nice products (Liferay etc.) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Trying-to-evaluate-ServiceMix-and-Mule-tf3043062s12049.html#a8458907 Sent from the ServiceMix - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
