Maven: Mule esb plugin

1. Mule Esb Plugin For Maven
Ashutosh Baghel and Mule

2. Mule Esb Plugin For Maven
Introduction
The Mule ES
B-maven-plugin is a separate plugin which is used
to handle below things..
Start a standalone mule s
erver [installs Mule as a service in Win32 machine
s]

3. Deploy domain
Deploy application(s)
Run unit tests
(MUnit) from application(s)
Stop standalone mule
server [uninstalls Mule service in Win32 machines]

4. This is much more powerful than running a traditio
nal unit tests since we can run multiple applicati
ons at the same time.
Prerequisites
The reader of
this article is assumed to possess some basic kno
wledge of Maven.
Detailed Steps

5. Add the mule-esb-maven plugin to pom.xml file (Pl
ease note that it compiles the Java code in the pr
oject which is already existing)
<plugin>
<groupI
d>org.mule.tools</groupId>
<artifactId>muleesb-ma
ven-plugin</artifactId>

6. <version>1.0</version>
<configuration>
<muleHom
e>${mule.home}</muleHome>
<applications>