Example of using Mule ESB to route web service calls

Question

I'm looking for an example of how to set up a very simple Mule configuration to route a SOAP web service call from a client to a service provider. Initially, there will just be one provider, and then I will want to add multiple service providers and a round-robin routing strategy in Mule.

Most of the examples on the Mule site have the service provider running within the Mule container. I want mine to be completely external.

Answer 1

If you don't need to decompose message arguments use HTTP pass-through, which is more light-weight and a lot simpler. For the round-robin implementation you could use a filter router with a groovy-based filter expression.

See here:

Create pass through with Mule ESB 2.2.1

http://www.mulesoft.org/documentation/display/MULE2USER/Outbound+Routers#OutboundRouters-Filters