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 is easily deployable and manageable. It has microservices-based architecture, which means that you can deploy the solution based on your needs, and you can manage the solution very easily."
"I am impressed with the product's connectors and scalability."
"The most valuable feature is that it's programmer-friendly, so it's very easy to develop APIs."
"This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors."
"It's open source, and there are a lot of community resources. Mule ESB makes it easy to connect to other software applications."
"What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product."
"Easy connectivity and easy integration."
"For complex cases, we employ the SSLi engine, whereas for simpler ones like healthcare or response data, such as EDI 270 or 271. We prefer to use an external XRT engine instead of handling it within the ESB for ease of management."
"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 process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration."
"The core is very stable."
"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."
"From an improvement perspective, there should be fewer coding challenges for users in Mule ESB."
"It should have some amount of logging."
"Documentation is cryptic, product releases are far too frequent, and upgrades become troublesome."
"In an upcoming release, I would like to see more additional concept for exception handling, batch processing, and increased integration with other application."
"One area that could be improved is the way that policies are propagated when APIs are moved from one environment to another. It's an issue, but when you develop and test the rest APIs in a lower environment and need to move them, there's a propagation process. This process moves certain aspects of the APIs, like the basic features. But when we move them, the policies don't always move with them. The policies should be able to move so we don't have to redo them manually. There are some APIs we use, but it's a bit tedious."
"Lacking some connectors that could be included."
"We would like to have a built-in logging framework in which we can do auditing."
"The Anypoint platform consumes a lot of memory, and it would be great for developers if it were more lightweight."
"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great."
"Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved."
"The documentation needs to be better."
"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."
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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