Mule
If you poke around a bit on the MuleSoft site, it probably won't take you long to find a nice definition of an ESB along with a discussion of when you might want to use one. There's a line in there somewhere which makes me chuckle (mostly because I think it's true more often than we care to admit) about folks choosing a technology before understanding what architecture is actually needed for their project. My experience has shown me that this phenomenon is not limited to SOA or even IT for that matter but that's a topic for another day. Recently we were working on some proof-of-concept stuff in Mule and ran into some trouble getting the connector for Google calendars to work. This suite appears to be a comprehensive set of connectors which expose the Google Apps API to MuleStudio very nicely. My guess is that a version mismatch is causing the unit tests and examples to fail for us but I cannot confirm that. After a few hours of effort which was int...