Running Multiple Instances of Mule 3.0

I’m working on some Mule services, with the new 3.0.1 version, and need to run multiple instances of Mule on the same physical server.

With Mule 2.x, this was done by running the provided setup_local_instance.sh script to copy some of the Mule directories, and then using the MULE_BASE environment variable to point to the new location.

With Mule 3.0, the script still exists, but deploying multiple instances in this manner does not work correctly.

After some experimentation, what worked for me was to copy the entire Mule installation directory, and set the MULE_HOME environment variable for each new instance.