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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

Introducing Scheduler

Scheduler is a component that helps to schedule jobs at a specific time. For example, if we need to run a specific program at 8 P.M. every day, then we can configure it to run at this time.

We learned the basics of Scheduler and its scheduling strategies in Chapter 4, Introduction to Core Components.

Let us explore how to create a Mule application with the Scheduler component.

Creating a Mule application with the Scheduler component

In this section, we will be creating a new Mule project with the Scheduler component using the Fixed Frequency scheduling strategy. To do so, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Anypoint Studio. Choose the Create a Mule Project option in Package Explorer to create a new Mule application.
  2. Provide the project name as SchedulerDemo, leave the remaining settings as is, and click the Finish button.
  3. Next, select the Core module and drag and drop Scheduler from Mule Palette to the canvas.
  4. Click on Scheduler inside the...