Why MuleSoft Matters for Java Teams

If you build enterprise systems in Java, you have probably lived through the integration problem. One system exposes SOAP, another speaks a proprietary REST dialect, a third only drops CSV files on an SFTP server every night, and somebody has to glue them together without breaking the rest of the estate. Hand-written point-to-point integrations work for the first three or four connections. After that, they become a web of undocumented dependencies that nobody wants to touch.

MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform is built for exactly this problem. It is an integration and API management platform centered on the Mule runtime, a lightweight engine that executes integration flows described declaratively in XML, with a large catalog of connectors for databases, SaaS applications, messaging systems, and legacy protocols.…