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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

Questions

Take a moment to answer the following questions to serve as a recap of what you just learned in this chapter:

  1. Which .xml file will have project dependencies information in a Mule application?
  2. What are the different types of scheduling strategies?
  3. What is APIkit Router?
  4. What is Object Store Connector?

Answers

  1. pom.xml
  2. There are two types of scheduling strategies:
    • Fixed Frequency
    • Cron
  3. APIkit Router is a tool for creating a Mule application. It autogenerates the flow using a RAML file. It receives the incoming request, validates the URL, query parameters, and URI parameters based on the API specification, and also routes the incoming request to the Mule flow.
  4. Object Store Connector is a Mule component that allows you to store a simple key-value pair.