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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

Exploring different types of configuration files

There are a few types of files that we will come across while developing a Mule application. Each file has its own purpose. The files are as follows:

  • Mule configuration file
  • Properties file
  • Project Object Model – a pom.xml file
  • API Specification file (Open API Specification and RAML)

We already learned about API Specification in Chapter 2, Designing Your API.

Let’s begin by exploring the Mule configuration file.

Mule configuration file

A Mule configuration file is a .xml file that contains all the information related to Mule flows and connector configurations. Whenever we create a new Mule application project, it creates a Mule configuration file in the /src/main/mule folder in the Package Explorer. When you open the Mule configuration file, it opens in the editor, where you can see the following three tabs:

  • Message Flow
  • Global Elements
  • Configuration XML

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