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    Mule ESB

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AMule ESB, from Mulesoft, is an open source middleware solution.N/A

    Payara Server

    Score9 out of 10
    N/APayara Server is a fully supported, developer-friendly, open source application server. The vendor says Payara Server’s architecture is innovative, cloud-native and optimized for production deployments. The application server is built and supported by a team of DevOps engineers dedicated to the continued development and maintenance of the open source software and committed to optimizing Payara Server for production Java EE applications. Key features of Payara Server include: •…N/A
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    Mule ESBPayara Server
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    Features
    Mule ESBPayara Server
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    Comparison of Application Servers features of Mule ESB and Payara Server
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    Mule ESB
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    Payara Server
    7.5
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    IDE support00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Mule ESBPayara Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
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    Usability
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    Performance
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    User Testimonials
    Mule ESBPayara Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    If you’re bringing anything into Salesforce you should just invest now into Mule, you will get your money’s worth and find a myriad of uses to build APIs between many other systems. Once you build a component you can easily reuse it as a building block to attach to another source/destination. This makes it easy to ramp up quickly and spread usage of Mule throughout your enterprise. A good value for medium to large companies, but probably cheaper to outsource your job to a consulting firm if you are smaller.
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    Payara Services
    - If the application is very large then the Payara server is suitable and in the case of a small application, we can choose Micro Payara. - Micro payara is very well suited for microservice architecture. - Fully Jakarta compliance. - Very good performance.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • It is best suited for Rest API development. Mule ESB uses RAML as an API descriptor which is less complex and easy to understand. RAML is an open standard majorly supported by Mulesoft. Once RAML is developed, it is very easy (a few clicks)to create flows corresponding to the resources defined in the RAML. One can also include JSON schema validation in RAML, and with the use of APIkit router, Mule ESB makes the request validation very easy (it's automatic basically.)
    • Mule ESB comes with a large spectrum of community and enterprise connectors. We have connectors for all the major platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, SAP, etc. This enables Mule ESB to integrate with the other systems in a faster and more robust way. Mule ESB has many components to fulfill the requirements of each integration (for example batch processing, parallel processing, choice, etc.)
    • Mule API gateway is one of the best tools (modules) of Mulesoft's offering. It supports API governance and management very well. One can easily enforce policies on their APIs with API gateway. It enables some of the must-have features in an API solution (i.e. throttling, oAuth, access levels, etc.)
    • Implementing a CI/CD (DevOps) environment for Mule ESB is a very easy task. Mule majorly uses MAVEN as its build tool, which in turn makes it best suitable for CI/CD approach. Mule also provides MAVEN plugins for auto deployments to the servers. Mule also has a best Unit testing module which is MUnit. MUnit can be used for both Unit and Functional testing, and it is easy to write and generates coverage reports in various formats.
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    Payara Services
    • Small memory footprint.
    • Fully JEE compliant with an exceptional administration console.
    • Very good performance.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Make sure to not over-engineer shared components. It can complicate development
    • Create a roadmap for where you are going - if not, you may miss components
    • I suggest getting support, otherwise it could be a difficult learning curve
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    Payara Services
    • Issues that are logged in Payara GitHub forum need to address on time, but it keeps on postponing fixing those issues.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
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    Payara Services
    As mentioned before it has an amazing configuration console. You can practically do anything from there and even update the program or install new features on the fly.
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    Performance
    Salesforce
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    Payara Services
    As mentioned before, its performance capabilities were one of the reasons we used them. It interacts with mass mail software and we see no performance impact. It handles everything pretty well and pretty fast.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    It doesn't have API . We have to go for another API manager. But in Mule, it has both API manager and ESB
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    Payara Services
    - As I said before, Payara has full Jakarta compliance and provide up-to-date technology stack upgrade. - Easy to install and upgrade. - Very less configuration setting. - Default ready-to-use production domain is available, which can be spun up to use in production.
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Overall a great tool for complex integrations
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    Payara Services
    • Can host multiple application on single VM.
    • Helps managed service team reduces their time on installation and up-gradation ( upgrading it to a new Payara server is very simple).
    • We can opt for Payara or Micro Payara based on the application size.
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