This document discusses exception handling strategies in Mule, focusing on the reference exception strategy. It defines a reference exception strategy as one that refers to error handling parameters defined in a global catch, rollback, or choice exception strategy. An example XML configuration is provided of a flow that uses a reference exception strategy to redirect to a catch exception strategy containing a Java component for handling errors. The result is that when a call to the flow causes an exception, the message configured in the catch strategy Java class will be returned.