We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and OpenESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"Mule Expression Language"
"The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot."
"The architecture based on events has several connectors which allow integration from external and internal applications of the company."
"Everything runs in Java, which is a useful feature."
"The most powerful feature is DataWeave, which is a powerful language where data can be transformed from one form into another."
"The most valuable feature of Mule ESB is data transformation, i.e. our interacting with different systems and orchestrating for our business needs."
"The cloud and integration abilities are most useful allowing us to use applications such as Salesforce and DataWeave."
"OpenESB pushes the organization to clearly define service boundaries and interfaces. So it motives the business and the development teams to clearly define their business services and processes they want to implement. OpenESB supports fine and coarse-grain granularity for the services and supports top-down and bottom-up approaches for the services, processes definition, and composition."
"One of the most valuable features is being able to implement business processes while keeping track of the design from BPMN to a BPEL Implementation."
"The core is very stable."
"The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application."
"There are some features on the commercial version of the solution that would be great if they were on the community version. Additionally, if they added more authorization features it would be helpful."
"It should have some amount of logging."
"The solution's setup needs to be a bit more straightforward and its support needs to respond faster."
"Limitation on external subscribers to listen to the messages on the bus."
"The current version will not be supported for much longer."
"It would be great to see implementing security modules as a feature."
"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."
"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great."
"The documentation of the product must be improved. It could be tricky to find the right documentation on a topic since the documentation is spread in many places. I advise the new joiner to contact the community to get entry points and additional documentation. Tutorial and Video must be present to take up the product."
"Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved."
"The documentation needs to be better."
Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 46 reviews while OpenESB is ranked 13th in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 4 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while OpenESB is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenESB writes "Enables us to define the business process and integrate it with other software". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, webMethods Integration Server and Red Hat Fuse, whereas OpenESB is most compared with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator and Oracle Service Bus. See our Mule ESB vs. OpenESB report.
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