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How to mock HTTP endpoints in Mule Functional Test?

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Mule is an enterprise service bus (ESB) and integration framework. In Mule, we define flows and sub-flows in order to integrate applications and orchestrate services.These flows contain endpoints to integrate different applications or services. These endpoints can be HTTP, VM, JMS, etc. More details about development in mule can be found here. Below is a sample flow.
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In order to write unit test cases for mule flows, mule provides an abstract JUnit test case called org.mule.tck.junit4.FunctionalTestCase that runs Mule inside a test case and manages the lifecycle of the server.More details about can be found here.
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HTTP Caching explained

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We all have noticed that opening of a webpage for the first time takes some time, but the second or third time it loads faster.

This happens because whenever we visit a webpage for the first time, our browser caches the content and need not have to make a call over the network to render it.

This caching ability of the browser saves a lot of network bandwidth and helps in cutting down the server load.
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