+----------------------------+ | Welcome to Mule! | |----------------------------| | http://mule.mulesource.org | +----------------------------+ Mule is a highly scalable Enterprise Services framework and messaging broker.

Here is some useful information to get you started. +--------------+ | INSTALLATION | +--------------+ If you're reading this, it means you've already downloaded and unpacked the dist ribution. The only other thing you need to do to get started using Mule is to set the loca tion of your Mule installation and add it to your path. This will depend on your platfo rm, but is usually something like the following: Linux / Unix -----------export MULE_HOME=/opt/mule export PATH=$PATH:$MULE_HOME/bin Windows ------set MULE_HOME=C:\Mule set PATH=%PATH%;%MULE_HOME%\bin (or by using the System utility in the Control Panel for Windows NT/2000/XP) +----------------------+ | ADDITIONAL LIBRARIES | +----------------------+ Mule has connectors for a wide variety of technologies, however in some cases in order to actually use the connector, libraries are required which cannot be distribute d as part of Mule due to licensing restrictions. In these cases it is up to the user to obtain the needed libraries and place them in the $MULE_HOME/lib/user directory. As a convenience, the very first time Mule is started, it will try to download S un Microsystems' javax.mail, javax.activation, and jsr223 (scripting) libraries. I f you are behind a firewall, you may need to configure your HTTP proxy settings in the file $MULE_HOME/conf/wrapper.conf in order for this download to work. +--------------+ | DISTRIBUTION | +--------------+ The distribution you have downloaded contains the following: ./bin ine ./conf ./docs ./examples - Shell and batch scripts for controlling Mule from the command l - Configuration files - API documentation (javadoc) for Mule and its sub-projects - Example applications you can run and try building yourself

./lib/boot r ./lib/mule ./lib/opt ./lib/user ssary. ./licences ./logs mode ./sbin ./src your IDE ./INSTALL.txt ./LICENSE.txt ./USAGE.txt

- Libraries used by the Java Service Wrapper to boot up the serve - Mule libraries - Non-Mule libraries - This is where you should place your custom classes/libraries. This directory comes before ./lib/mule on the classpath and can therefore be used to patch the distributed Mule classes if nece - License information for all libraries shipped with Mule - Output will be sent here by default when running in background - Internal scripts which are not to be run by the user - The source code for all Mule modules, you can import this into - erm... this file! - License agreement for Mule - Basic usage of Mule from the command-line

+-----------------+ | GETTING STARTED | +-----------------+ Take a look at the latest documentation on our website: http://www.muledocs.org/Getting+Started+Guide User Guide: http://www.muledocs.org/User+Guide Example Applications: http://www.muledocs.org/Examples +----------+ | FEEDBACK | +----------+ We hope you enjoy using Mule. To help us make it a better product please tell us about any issues (no matter how small), suggestions or other comments you hav e. You can post on the mailing list - user@mule.codehaus.org or raise issues at http://mule.mulesource.org/jira, or drop in to our IRC channel on irc. codehaus.org#mule Enjoy! The Mule Team