Spring MVC's message conversion feature is the bomb. I love it; I wish I'd started using it long ago. Just make sure your JSON fields match your POJO property names, and your MVC controller includes a POJO parameter or return value. Then Spring MVC auto-converts...
I've written about using Mule with Spring on my personal blog. In this article I described how to integrate Mule into an existing Spring MVC application. That approach involved configuring the web.xml file to setup a Mule context: <listener>...
Activiti out-of-the-box supports Mule tasks. When Activiti encounters a Mule task, it launches the configured Mule flow. This integration is exactly why my new project uses Mule in the first place. But Activiti also supports execution and task listeners: code that...
Over the past several months, I have written several blogs about my project, the ArkCase framework. In this post, I will cover how we have gotten ArkCase to work with Spring Security. It is important to note that each organization has their own user directory, their...
I just finished my first Mule flow. My flow receives an Alfresco node reference and declares a corresponding record in the Alfresco Records Management Application. I learned about Mule and Alfresco RM along the way... specifically, I learned to think like a Mule,...
It's been a long time (OK, a few years) since I last wrote about ArkCase. What's been happening since then? We wrote the ArkCase framework using Spring and Spring MVC. It was successful: we supported a few customers. One customer was very large and required many...