Bulletpoints on Mulesoft ESB (Anypoint / Exchange / CloudHub)

Before understanding Mule, hope you have a good understanding of what is web-services, SOAP and REST services.

Few things about SOAP and REST:

• SOAP

1. loose Coupling
2. logical
• using JMS but there is overhead of broker

• Mule ESB

1. the whole system has been developed on Java/Spring.

• BUS

1. Router
2. Queue (channels)
3. Filters
4. Transforms
5. Adapters

• ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), examples of current Middleware products

1. TIBCO
2. Jboss
3. Mule
4. SOA

• Orchestration- by def.
• orchestrating the task at hand using different services to achieve the required output.

• Anypoint Platform

1. Provides different flows to be developed
2. Allows Mule ESB runtime for deployment
3. Mule understands RAML
4. Anypoint provides RAML designer
5. API Portals (expose RAML)
6. APIManager (Cloud)
• tell endpoints return proxy URLs to be shared with API Gateway
• Cloud Hub 
• Exchange
• Security/Policies
7. API Gateway Runtime (host security)
• shares Proxy URLs with Customers
8. MMC (Mule Management Console)
• Managing Mule Services/Clusters
9. Devkit
• create custom connectors

**Note: I know they are just the bullet points but let me know in comments if you have any doubts regarding the same. I will try my best to answer your queries.