BPEL support includes the embedding of FiveSight's PXE (Process eXecution Engine) BPEL engine.

"For our customers, it means they can now use BPEL orchestration to map their business processes," Mason said.

Mule 1.1 supports management of EJB session beans as Mule components, which can load the beans from an existing container. This eliminates the need to do custom coding for EJBs, Mason added.

Also in Version 1.1, SOAP requests can be made via the Apache Axis Web services stack. SOAP named parameter support and WSDL generation have been improved to make it easier to invoke non-Java Web services such as .Net.

A REST (Representational State Transfer) service wrapper component in Mule 1.1 allows a remote service to be used as a local Mule service.