Category: Technology

  • Update Document with a MongoDB Function using MuleSoft

    Update Document with a MongoDB Function using MuleSoft

    I recently had to figure out how to use the MuleSoft MongoDB Connector and update a document with a function. This post is a quick walk-through showing how to build an example flow to address the use case. In MongoDB, the collection we’ll be performing the function against looks like the following. It’s just a set…

  • Deploy Domain Projects using the Mule Plugin for Maven

    Deploy Domain Projects using the Mule Plugin for Maven

    Continuous Integration (CI) is a DevOps development practice that requires developers to check code into a shared repository (e.g. Github) after which automated builds and tests are run. This process allows teams to detect problems early and locate them more easily. The MuleSoft Anypoint Platform provides the flexibility and tools to easily build a CI process…

  • Create a Facebook Messenger Bot using MuleSoft and the Anypoint Platform.

    Create a Facebook Messenger Bot using MuleSoft and the Anypoint Platform.

    With over 900 million users a month, the Facebook Messenger platform has a pretty big audience.  The introduction of Messenger Bots earlier this year helped extend this adoption by helping drive personalized, scaled experiences with customers. Instead of building an app, just build the message thread as the place where you connect and interact with your users.…

  • Using the DropBox API in the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

    Using the DropBox API in the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

    Overview MuleSoft has hundreds of connectors to numerous platforms which take away the need to write custom code. You can find them along with templates and examples on the Anypoint Exchange. The connectors generally wrap the platform APIs and expose all the available operations making it easier to setup integrations without any custom code. But what…

  • Download all Objects from an Amazon S3 Bucket using MuleSoft

    Download all Objects from an Amazon S3 Bucket using MuleSoft

    Here’s a quick example on how you can download all the Objects from an Amazon S3 Bucket using the Amazon S3 Connector.  You can see the flow and the corresponding code (minus the HTTP and Amazon S3 Configuration) below. <flow name=”s3-exampleFlow”> <http:listener config-ref=”HTTP_Listener_Configuration” path=”/bucket” doc:name=”HTTP” /> <s3:list-objects config-ref=”Amazon_S3__Configuration” bucketName=”s3-mule-bucket” doc:name=”Amazon S3 – List Objects in Bucket”…

  • Debugging DataWeave output in Studio

    One of the greatest features of Anypoint Studio is the Visual Design Debugger and often times you want to see the payload as a string during debugging. Generally using #[payload:java.lang.String] or #[message.payloadAs(java.lang.String)] does the trick. But when it comes to DataWeave, those methods don’t work if the output is anything other than ‘application/java‘ due to the…

  • Google Chrome CR-48

    I came home the other day to find a box on my doorstep. It was a pretty nondescript except for a UPS label so I had no idea where it came from or who sent it. I was pleasantly surprised to find a Google Chrome CR-48, the predecessor to the upcoming Chromebooks which are slated…

  • Document object to String object (Java Code)

    Converting a Document object to a String object in Java is an issue I’ve run into a couple times at work. I wanted to see the output of a WebService call response that was in XML in the console. Here’s a quick code snippet I found that handles this: // xmlDoc is the Document object…

  • Can Moore’s Law Continue Forever?

    I find myself waiting every so often for my computer to process a video or compile a program. And then I think back to my first computer which was a 486 DX2 and think about what it would be like to even watch a video on there and I quickly forget about the wait.

  • Terminal Server Exceeded Connections

    Since I do most of my work remotely, I use the Remote Desktop feature of Windows often. I have at least 10 different machines and often time people are using the same machines and forget to log out. What results is the common message: “The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections”.…