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Mule ESB vs. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Mule ESB

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

    Red Hat JBoss EAP

    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Pricing
    Mule ESBRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Mule ESBRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Mule ESBRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Mule ESB and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    Feature
    Mule ESB
    -
    Ratings
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    6.8
    9 Ratings
    15% below category average
    IDE support00 Ratings6.09 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Mule ESBRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Mule ESBRed Hat JBoss EAP
    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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    Red Hat
    JBoss EAP is subscription based/open source platform. It's very reliable and great for deploying high transaction Java based enterprise applications. It integrates well with third party components like mod_cluster and supports popular Java EE web-based frameworks such as Spring, Angular JS, jQuery Mobile, and Google Web Toolkit.
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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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    Red Hat
    • MOD_CLUSTER integration. JBoss EAP integrates pretty well with mod_cluster. This is an intelligent load balancer especially useful in highly clustered environments.
    • Supports enterprise-grade features such as high availability clustering, distributed caching, messaging etc.
    • Supports deployment in on-premise, virtual and hybrid cloud environments.
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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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    Red Hat
    • Difficult to replicate configuration outside of a container environment
    • Still requires quite a bit of knowledge of the CLI
    • Integration with deployment tools requires CLI knowledge
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    We are planning to migrate away from Jboss to Tomcat as Jboss has shown not interest in supporting OSGi which is heavily used at our shop
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    JBoss overall is easy to use. The installation and deployment of applications are quick. Documentations and support are also readily available.
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    Performance
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    JBoss EAP is lightweight and doesn't really consumes much physical resources. It's high performing and suites well for high transaction Java enterprise applications. The out of box performance settings are not really great and you will have to configure the settings to suite your environment to leverage it's full benefits.
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Fast response.
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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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    Red Hat
    We selected JBoss because of compatibility with EJB's. We currently are trying to reduce our footprint and will highly consider using Tomcat.
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Overall a great tool for complex integrations
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    Red Hat
    • Jboss EAP is easy to deploy and configure. This lead to lower cost and faster delivery.
    • Even though we have large number of machines running JBoss, we have only two Jboss Administrators. It doesn't requires too much administration and maintenance on daily basis and reduces number of administrators required for large implementations.
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