Chapter 5. Transforming data with Mule

In this chapter

  • Message transformation principles
  • Common transformers from Mule Core
  • JMS and XML transformers
  • Writing custom transformers

Nowadays, every application understands XML and uses interoperable data structures, right? If you replied yes, be informed that you live in Wonderland, and sooner or later, you’ll awake to a harsh reality! If, like most of us, you answered no, then you know why data transformation is such a key feature of an ESB.

We’re still far away from a world of unified data representation, if we ever reach that point. Unifying data is a tremendous effort. For public data models, it takes years of work by international committees to give birth to complete and complex standards. ...

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