Mule IDE is getting a new life, and we are happy to deliver first results to our community. The 1.4.3 release has been aligned with a corresponding Mule 1.4.3 release. Release notes for this version are available here. Check Mule IDE home for general instructions and examples.

As always, developers and fellow users can use dedicated User and Dev lists.

Confirmed bugs can (and should) be reported in project's JIRA.

Dan Diephouse recently did a presentation at QCon on the Atom Publishing Protocol and how it can be used to build enterprise services. The Atom Publishing Protocol is built on the popular syndication format, Atom. APP provides a RESTful approach for building services which is based on the concepts of collections and resources. Many applications can be broken down into this model and take advantage of the ubiquity of the Atom format for their application.

Download it from http://netzooid.com/presentations/atompub_services.ppt

We're happy to announce the availability of the 1.0-M2 release of the CXF web services transport for Mule 1.4.x. Currently supported:

• SOAP, WSDL, WS-I Basic Profile compliant web services
• Code-first web services with the JAX-WS and "simple" (i.e. POJO/non-annotated) frontends
• WSDL-first web services with generated CXF server stubs* An outbound router which can use CXF generated clients
• WS-Addressing support
• Simple web service "bridging" support

For more details please refer to the CXF project in MuleForge and the cookbook:

Any feedback, contributions and bug reports are most welcome. Post to the mailing listand file issues in project JIRA.