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MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers

By : Arul Christhuraj Alphonse, Alexandra Martinez, Akshata Sawant
Book Image

MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers

By: Arul Christhuraj Alphonse, Alexandra Martinez, Akshata Sawant

Overview of this book

MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers will help you build state-of-the-art enterprise solutions with flexible and scalable integration capabilities using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform and Anypoint Studio. If you’re a Salesforce developer looking to get started with this useful tool, look no further. This book will get you up to speed in no time, leveling up your integration developer skills. This essential guide will first introduce you to the fundamentals of MuleSoft and API-led connectivity, before walking you through the API life cycle and the Anypoint Studio IDE. Once you have the IDE set up, you’ll be ready to create Mule applications. You’ll look at the core components of MuleSoft and Anypoint Platform, and before long you’ll know how to build, transform, secure, test, and deploy applications using the wide range of components available to you. Finally, you’ll learn about using connectors to integrate MuleSoft with Salesforce and to fulfill a number of use cases, which will be covered in depth, along with interview and certification tips. By the end of this book, you will be confident building MuleSoft integrations at an enterprise scale and be able to gain the fundamental MuleSoft certification – MCD.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1:Getting Started with MuleSoft
7
Part 2: A Deep Dive into MuleSoft
14
Part 3: Integration with Salesforce and Other Connectors

Building Your Mule Application

In the previous chapter, we learned how to use DataWeave to transform data from one format to another.

In this chapter, let us explore the different configuration files available in a Mule application and try using different components, such as Schedulers, APIkit Router, and Object Store Connector, to build a Mule application. In Chapter 3, Exploring Anypoint Studio, we created and tested a simple Mule application, HelloWorld. In this chapter, we will be learning how to build a Mule application with different components elaborately.

After reading this chapter, you’ll come away with more knowledge on the following topics:

  • Different configuration files in a Mule application
  • How to create a Mule application with Schedulers
  • How to create a Mule application with APIkit Router
  • How to use Object Store Connector