Productivity comes from being effective, not repeating yourself. Laziness is also one of a three great virtues of a programmer. Once you understand how to deploy Mule app to multiple environments, there is no point in having to repeat yourself every time you create a new project.

Coming from a BizTalk background, discovering differences between BizTalk and Mule is really interesting. Not necessarily to find one better than the other, but to appreciate differences in design and understand philosophy behind it.

I have followed a very simple Echo example to learn how to use Echo component in mule. The first thing I noticed was that the example was written for Mule 3.4. This example would work up to 3.7 but not after 3.8. And sadly there isn’t up to date example for 3.8. So, let me brief things that I have found here.