Andrej Koelewijn

My mule configurations files often contain proxy settings for connectors that are used to communicate to the outside world. However during development and testing I can’t use the normal proxy, since i’m mocking the outside world. Littleproxy is a java proxy that you can use to replace the real proxy with a testing proxy. This [...]

When I tried to use the following example by David Dossot mule-agent-based-sync-http-request-handling my jms endpoint times out. In the log i can see that the response message is created, but the outbound endpoint never receives it. After some googling i found the following blog post by Claude Mamo: ReplyTo in a Mule flow. Adding the [...]

Here is a quick example how you can access you can access properties loaded using spring using the Mule expression language.

Ironically, one of the more interesting presentations yesterday at the nljug jfall 2011 was a presentation by David Chou of Microsoft on Azure. The largest part of his presentation discussed and demoed how you can create and deploy a java application on Azure. But the part I liked best was where he discussed architecture patterns [...]

One of the main goals that Software architects try to achieve is to design solutions that will last a long time. You’ll often hear an architect say that the product will have a life span of about ten years, and that all technical choices should support this goal. This means that any framework you select [...]

Here’s a simple groovy script to show deployed Apache Camel routes. It uses JMX to query the description of routes available. Here’s an example of the output generated by this script:

The following groovy script displays a list of queues in ActiveMQ with some statistics per queue.

Here’s a quick example how to create a camel route that creates a route from an ActiveMQ topic. It uses a selector to receive a subset of all messages. To test this you should start ActiveMQ in the unit test. The test itself uses a mock endpoint to specify how many messages you expect, and [...]

I ran into this annoying issue on windows: I cancelled a running junit test in maven (it was hanging), but could not rerun maven. It complained that the target folder could not be deleted. A file created by the surefire plugin in maven was locked, apparently some process was still using it. On unix you [...]

Out of the box ServiceMix comes with a preconfigured ActiveMQ broker, which is started when you start ServiceMix. Bundle 54 is the default broker. You can configure it by changing the file SERVICEMIX_HOME/etc/activemq-broker.xml You can add an extra broker by using the command activemq:create-broker in the ServiceMix shell: This command creates a configuration file for [...]