Anypoint Studio has a feature to automatically generate documentation for Mule projects. It allows users to generate an HTML-based documentation file with a single click. The documentation generator plugin extracts information from doc:name attributes added to components in the Mule configuration file. It produces documentation containing graphical and code views of all flows in the project.

1. Automatic documentation
with Mule

2. Documentation is very important aspect in our software project which explains
how it operates or how to use it, and may mean different things to people in
different role. It identify attributes, capabilities, characteristics, or qualities of a
system or project.
Do you know your Anypoint Studio has a feature to generate documentation of
our Mule project ??

3. Anypoint Studio simplifies the approach for application documentation. It allows
to generate an HTML based documentation for the application by click of a
button.
It supports the ability to import and export your projects or various project
elements and has the ability to document each of the flows, elements, code and
it’s attributes.

5. Yes .. We can .. I will show you this trick .. How ??

6. Anypoint studio has an inbuild document generator plugin
available??

7. So, let’s consider we have following flow:-

8. Mule config will be
You can see in the code we have written the description of the components in
the doc:name attributes .. Now when document will be generated we will be
getting the description of the component in the documentation

9. Now, in anypoint studio we will see a plugin that is for document generation
:-
Now, let’s click on the plugin shown in the red mark above

10. It will ask for a location to generate our documentation files
We select a path and click on Generate Studio Documentation.
In our case the documentation will generate in C:Tempdocs folder

11. The document is getting generated in the given folder

12. We will find folders and a index.html files has been generated in the given
folder as Studio generates, then saves the documentation for your project as
an index.html file on your local drive.
If we double-click to open the index.html, file will open in our default Web
browser as above.

13. Thus, the documentation contains every single flows and shows both the
graphical flow design and XML configuration code of each individual flows
within the application.
You can see it also contains our code and description of our flows and
components both graphically and also in xml format

14. In my next slide I will bring some other techniques in Mule
implementation .
Hope you have enjoyed this simpler version.
Keep sharing your knowledge and let our Mule community grow 