Smooks for Mule 1.3-RC1 Released

17 September 2011

The Smooks for Mule team is proud to announce the 1.3-RC1 release of the Smooks for Mule module. Smooks for Mule enables Message Transformation and Routing using the Smooks Engine. Smooks is a Java Framework/Engine for processing XML and other structured (non XML) data (CSV, EDI etc). The module has a Mule 1.4.x, Mule 2.2.x and Mule 3.1.x compatible version. Several examples are provided to demonstrate the module.

This release contains the following improvements:

• The new Mule 3 package is now compatible with the Mule 3.1.x releases.
• Upgraded Smooks to version 1.4

For more information take a look at the release notes.

The Smooks for Mule module can be downloaded from the download page.

What is Smooks?
Smooks is a Java Framework/Engine for processing XML and non XML data (CSV, EDI etc).

Smooks can be used to:

• Perform a wide range of Data Transforms - XML to XML, CSV to XML, EDI to XML, XML to EDI, XML to CSV, Java to XML, Java to EDI, Java to CSV, Java to Java, XML to Java, EDI to Java, JSON to Java, JSON to XML etc.
• Populate a Java Object Model from a data source (CSV, EDI, XML, JSON, Java etc). Populated object models can be used as a transformation result itself, or can be used by (e.g.) Templating resources for generating XML or other character based results. Also supports Virtual Object Models (Maps and Lists of typed data), which can be used by EL and Templating functionality.
• Process huge messages (GBs) - Split, Transform and Route message fragments to JMS, File, Database etc destinations.
• Enrich a message with data from a Database, or other Datasources.
• Perform Extract Transform Load (ETL) operations by leveraging Smooks' Transformation, Routing and Persistence functionality.

Smooks supports both DOM and SAX processing models, but adds a more "code friendly" layer on top of them. It allows you to plug in your own "ContentHandler" implementations (written in Java or Groovy), or reuse the many existing handlers.

Smooks is an ideal fit as part of an overall Integration Solution