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The focal point for an 18F/TTS project with the United States Forest Service on timber permitting
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1 hour of Mulesoft research #43

Closed MelissaBraxton closed 4 years ago

MelissaBraxton commented 4 years ago

Background We heard a rumor from Zahid that there may be someone in NRM who is working on using Mulesoft to create an API to interface with TIM. We want to understand how easy Mulesoft is to work with and whether leveraging any work to date on using Mulesoft to connect to TIM could help us.

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ctro commented 4 years ago

Mulesoft is COTS software that lets you point/click APIs into existence (among other things). It will display all usual pros/cons of COTS software.

If the partner already has this Mulesoft API thing, we should probably try to use it. If they need to buy it, maybe not.

I talked to Peter Burkholder who has some experience:

It seems to be a potential antipattern to overload mulesoft with business logic. But I didn't get to work with it as HUD went south after that.

MelissaBraxton commented 4 years ago

Good to know Clint! If you feel like you have an understanding of how it works, strengths/weaknesses, can close this out?