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This guide offers information about how to use Mule Runtime, commonly called Mule, or Mule ESB to integrate systems, orchestrate web services and configure the runtime environment. The visual representations of Mule applications you see throughout the documentation are usually depicted as seen in the Anypoint Studio IDE.

Mule is the lightweight integration runtime engine that allows you to connect anything, anywhere. Rather than creating multiple point-to-point integrations between systems, services, APIs, and devices, you use Mule to create applications that intelligently manage message routing, data mapping, orchestration, reliability, security, and scalability between nodes. Plug other systems and applications into Mule and let it handle communication between systems, allowing you to track and monitor your application ecosystem and external resources.

Integration developers write Mule applications to tie together various systems. Mule applications are configured to run on Mule runtime to process inbound information, and ingest this information in a pre-defined manner. An expected request to a running Mule application naturally triggers Mule to encode the event and data in a Mule message, passing it along a single thread or multiple threads. Mule transforms and routes the Mule message in stages, according to the processors configured to interact with the message at the various stages. Mule gets the message to its destination, passing the requisite data to the recipient.

The Mule application is defined in an XML document that specifies the necessary dependencies for the Mule application to run. You can configure your Mule application to process data in a variety of ways, and can adjust the Mule runtime instance accordingly. Mule is packaged with components, connectors, and transformers that work quickly to get the data and metadata you need from your Mule application, and feed it to any destination.

Mule runtime engine (Mule) is a lightweight integration engine that runs Muleapplications and supports domains and policies. Mule applications, domains,and policies share an XML DSL (domain-specific language).

Mule applications connect systems, services, APIs, and devices using API-ledconnectivity instead of point-to-point integrations. Mule applications providefunctionality for message routing, data mapping, orchestration, reliability,security, and scalability.

Domains enable you to share global configurations that Mule applications need toreuse, such as default error handlers, shared properties, scheduler pools, andcomponent configurations. You can only deploy domains when running Mule runtime engine on premises.

Mule includes an embedded API Gateway, which enables you to applysecurity policies to an API, enrich incoming or outgoing messages, and addcapabilities to an API without having to write any code.

See API Gateway Capabilitiesfor additional information.

Maven is a project management utility that Mule implements to enhance projectdevelopment. Mule provides built-in Maven functionality. For the Mule runtime engine,you can integrate the packaging, testing, and deployment of your Mule applications,domains, and custom policies with your Maven lifecycle using the Mule Maven plugin.

CloudHub 2.0 provides for deployments across 12 regions globally, either single or shared tenancy, and dynamically scales infrastructure and built-in services up or down to support elastic transaction volumes.See CloudHub 2.0 for more information.

Runtime Fabric is a container service that enables you to run Mule applications and API gateways within a data center or third-party cloud environment that you control and manage. You can install Runtime Fabric on a set of physical servers, virtual machines, or within Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Runtime Fabric comes bundled with technology such as Docker and Kubernetes, which offer benefits such as high availability, failover, clustering, and load balancing. See Anypoint Runtime Fabric Overview for more information.

The standalone option enables you to host Mule runtime engine server and related services in an environment that you manage. Using standalone runtimes, the Mule runtime server can run on a physical server, a virtual machine, or within a third-party cloud installation like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.

MuleSoft releases enhance the quality, capabilities, and security of Muleruntime engine (Mule). To take advantage of these improvements, it is importantto adopt a strategy for upgrading your Mule version and to regularly updatepatches of your Mule deployments with the latest bug fixes and securityenhancements.

So, my guess is that Anypoint Studio v7.8 isn't compatible with Mule version 4.4? It doesn't seem to state it in the release notes (4.4 probably didn't exist when they were released). In order to run this project, I just need to update my Anypoint Studio to a version that can run a 4.4 project?

Recommended: It is strongly recommended to upgrade to the last release of Anypoint Studio. You are using an old version of Anypoint Studio. Anypoint Studio 7.15 has been just released at the time of this writing. Your version was released originally in February 2021, it has been End Of Life for a time and misses a lot of improvements and fixes. You can still use Mule 4.3 with the newer Studio version installing it if not packaged with the new version.

Only if you absolutely need to stay in the old EOL version of Studio: You can edit mule-artifact.json to change the required version to a different one, like 4.3.0. Unless you are using a feature or connector specific to 4.4.0 then you should be able to run it with the previous version. There are no guarantees because as you correctly mentioned Studio 7.8 was released prior to Mule 4.4.

Even the most user-friendly tools can be challenging to install and configure the first time. For this reason, our customers frequently ask us for the best practices around installing and configuring the Mule runtime.

This post is specific for what we recommend for RedHat Enterprise CentOS official recommendation and only covers Mule 3.x runtime on premise. Not applicable to CloudHub or Mule 4.x. The post assumes you have a basic understanding of Linux administration.

Mule Runtime can successfully run on a number of different operating systems which support Java. However, personally I prefer and recommend Linux Red Hat Enterprise or CentOS version 7. By default, these Linux distributions come with OpenJDK pre-installed. I highly recommend removing OpenJDK completely from the system using package managers such as yum or rpm, followed by using manual remove commands to clean up the rest of the JDK related files manually.

I am looking for some help on setting up CICD pipeline for my Mule project, This is for my learning purpose.

I have installed Jenkins, have my own github project, would you or your team will be able to hep here?

I am OK for paid service.

MuleSoft has just released Mule Runtime 4.6 alongside a host of changes. Join this session to get an overview of the runtime update, learn about the two new support models and get advice on upgrading to Java 17.

Beginning with the Mule Runtime 4.5.0 release on October 3, 2023, MuleSoft will release updates at regular intervals to enable customers to stay on top of changes and take advantage of new capabilities earlier. The new Mule Runtime release cadence aligns with the Salesforce release cycle (February, June, and October release windows), enabling joint customers to plan and manage their upgrades more efficiently across both platforms.

We are transitioning from an ad-hoc release cycle, which historically has been every one to two years, to a regular release cadence of three times each year (Winter, Spring, Summer) that aligns with the Salesforce release cycle.

These channels provide customers with flexibility and choice. Customers can use Edge to adopt features earlier with a shorter application lifecycle management timeframe, versus using LTS to leverage new capabilities annually with a longer application lifecycle management timeframe.

LTS versions are released annually every February and incorporate new capabilities introduced in the prior Edge releases. These LTS versions are focused on providing longer application maintenance periods, and once released, these versions will receive regular patches for security vulnerabilities and critical issues. We recommend this channel for mission-critical applications and on-premises runtime deployments.

Edge versions are released every four months, on a schedule of February, June, and October continuously. This release channel is focused on enabling faster innovation, and once released, will also receive regular patches for security vulnerabilities and critical issues.

Edge versions will have a shorter support period and will require more frequent upgrades compared to LTS versions. We recommend this release channel for organizations or applications that require the latest features and advancements, and have the resources to manage more frequent upgrades.

Beginning with Mule 4.5, Mule Runtimes will continue to receive monthly updates across deployment models (CloudHub 1.0, CloudHub 2.0, and Runtime Fabric), but these updates will follow the new versioning scheme mentioned below, rather than the current, date-based versioning.

The Hybrid Standalone deployment model will move from date-based versioning to semantic versioning, represented as Major.Minor.Patch. This change aligns with industry standards and simplifies version identification.CloudHub 1.0, CloudHub 2.0, and RTF, will use the following versioning schema:

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