Mulesoft ESB

Mule is an ESB* (Enterprise Service Bus) framework. It is an scalable object manager that handles interactions with services and applications that uses different technologies for transport and messaging like web service or sockets.

*:An enterprise service bus (ESB) is a software architecture model used for designing and implementing communication between mutually interacting software applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Mule was designed to be easily implemented into Java applications, or to be able to run it as an stand alone service. Mule supports a lot of tools like: Mule Management Console, Anypoint Studio, Anypoint Enterprise Security, Mule IDE, Mule Healthcare Toolkit, ...

Mule also has a JBI container that is distributed with the eclipse-based muleIDE, which is a set of plugins for eclipse that is used to develop, deploy and manage projects.
Also provides message auditing defined by the enterprise integration patterns book.