Mr. Diephouse is a software architect at MuleSource, the company behind the open source Mule integration framework. Here he is focused on building and helping others build open source web services/SOA solutions such as Mule Galaxy, an open source Governance platform. He is a co-founder of the web services framework Apache CXF, a founder of several other projects including XFire, SXC, and Jettison, and participates in several others whenever possible.