DataWeave is a new feature of Mule-3 that allows us to convert data to any kind of format, such as XML, CSV, JSON and POJO’s etc. In Mule 3, we use both MEL and Dataweave for writing the mule messages. Among these, MEL is default expression language in Mule 3 But this approach had some data inconsistencies and scattered approaches. To avoid the stress of converting data objects to Java objects in Mule 3 every time by the usage of expressions Mule 4 was launched. In Mule 4 DataWeave is the default expression language over Mule 3’s default MEL.
In Mule-4 DataWeave version has changed from 1.0 to 2.0.
Apart from syntax changes, there are many new features in DataWeave 2.0