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We performed a comparison between JBoss ESB and Mule ESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The solution is very easy to use. I can download the trial version and just give it a go."

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"The most valuable feature for Mule is the number of connectors that are available.""Easy connectivity and easy integration.""The most valuable features of Mule ESB are its ease of use, documentation, ease to adapt to newer security and vulnerabilities, and a lot of help available. Additionally, there is a lot of flexibility, many patches available, and they provide APIs. They are a market standard.""It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications.""The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave.""The solution has a good graphical interface.""Mule Expression Language""The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience."

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"The EPA, from what I understand, lacks a lot of features and it doesn't really know how to interface with legacy systems or how to develop APIs for legacy systems."

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"MuleSoft isn't as mature as some other integration technologies out there like IBM WebSphere. There's room for growth, and MuleSoft is working toward that.""The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster.""Community editions need more attention.""Lacking some connectors that could be included.""In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the generator for the DataWeave language so that it's a little more graphic.""The price of Mule ESB could improve.""From the product perspective, it was sometimes hard to manage the dependencies. When we had to add dependencies on a couple of different packages, it was sometimes confusing. It was hard to update them with Anypoint Studio, as well as with MuleSoft. There were challenges with that. So, that's one of the areas that could be improved.""Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."

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  • "This is expensive. In my next project, we had to go to other vendor."
  • "Plan your licensing model (cloud or on-premises or hybrid) that will allow seamless integration with new partners."
  • "The various features and components for this solution are no longer free."
  • "The licensing is yearly, and there are additional fees for services."
  • "This product is cheaper than some offered by other vendors, although there is a problem because you have to pay for some third-party adapters."
  • "Most of the challenges that I had with this solution were for smaller customers. There is not a good licensing model or pricing model. It is more expensive than other solutions, and that's the downside of MuleSoft. I had to be creative to be able to sell it to the business, but we did. This is something they have to work on because for large companies, it's affordable, but for small and medium businesses, it's very hard to sell."
  • "This product is expensive, but it does offer value for money."
  • "I think the price is very high. If you use TIBCO BW, the license is for the CPU usage, then the IPS, and support. I also think the license for the product is a one-time expense."
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    Top Answer:I was previously part of the Oracle SOA/OSB development team. In my current capacity I architected solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes and on PCE/RTF on… more »
    Top Answer:Our team ran a comparison of IBM’s Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB in order to determine what sort of ESB software was the best fit for our organization. Ultimately we decided to choose IBM Integration… more »
    Top Answer:The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot.
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    Overview
    JBossESB is the next generation of EAI - better and without the vendor-lockin characteristics of old. As such, many of the capabilities mirror those of existing EAI offerings: Business Process Monitoring, Integrated Development Environment, Human Workflow User Interface, Business Process Management, Connectors, Transaction Manager, Security, Application Container, Messaging Service, Metadata Repository, Naming and Directory Service, Distributed Computing Architecture. Plus JBossESB is part of an SOI (Service Oriented Infrastructure). However, SOA is not simply a technology or a product: it's a style of design, with many aspects (such as architectural, methodological and organisational) unrelated to the actual technology.
    For companies looking to modernize and unlock the value of existing on-premises systems and applications, an enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture serves as a critical foundation layer for SOA. When deployed as an ESB, the Mule runtime engine of Anypoint Platform combines the power of data and application integration across legacy systems and SaaS applications, with a seamless path to the other capabilities of Anypoint Platform and the full power of API-led connectivity.
    Sample Customers
    Rancore, Sprint, ResMed, Brazil's Ministry of Health, ING Services Polska
    Ube, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Justice Systems, Camelot
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Government14%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company46%
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Healthcare Company8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Insurance Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise75%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise53%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
    May 2024
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    JBoss ESB is ranked 14th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) while Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 45 reviews. JBoss ESB is rated 7.0, while Mule ESB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of JBoss ESB writes "Easy to use with flexible pricing, but needs more flexibility surrounding integrations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". JBoss ESB is most compared with Red Hat Fuse, Oracle Service Bus, IBM Integration Bus and webMethods Integration Server, whereas Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and Fiorano ESB.

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