Mule ESB pros and cons

It was pretty fast to develop APIs on this platform, which is something I liked about it. So, the time to value was pretty good.

This tool has exceptional API management and integration connectors in addition to multiple out of the box connectors.

What Mule provides out-of-box is a sufficient product.

The solution offers multiple deployment options.

Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community.

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.

The solution improved my company by modernizing the way we offer services and improving the user experience.

The most valuable features of Mule ESB are its ease of use, documentation, ease to adapt to newer security and vulnerabilities, and a lot of help available. Additionally, there is a lot of flexibility, many patches available, and they provide APIs. They are a market standard.

Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution.

The solution doesn't require much code writing and we can develop APIs very easily.

From the product perspective, it was sometimes hard to manage the dependencies. When we had to add dependencies on a couple of different packages, it was sometimes confusing. It was hard to update them with Anypoint Studio, as well as with MuleSoft. There were challenges with that. So, that's one of the areas that could be improved.

We would like the ability to use our own code. This would allow us to develop customizations with ease. Additionally, it would be nice to have more analytics or insights on the exchanged information between databases.

There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product.

It would be great to see implementing security modules as a feature.

MuleSoft isn't as mature as some other integration technologies out there like IBM WebSphere. There's room for growth, and MuleSoft is working toward that.

It should have some amount of logging.

In the next release, I would like to see improvement in the generator for the DataWeave language so that it's a little more graphic.

The price of Mule ESB could improve.

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.

The current version will not be supported for much longer.