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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

Getting started with deployment models

A deployment model basically tells you about the environment in which you’ll be hosting your Mule application. In the previous chapter (Chapter 8, Building Your Mule Application), we deployed a Mule application to CloudHub.

We will study different types of deployment models in this chapter. Before getting started with the deployment models, let’s understand some common terms.

The topology of Mule capabilities is divided into two fragments, namely the control plane and runtime plane (see Figure 9.1):

  • Control plane: This consists of the components that are responsible for building and managing the Mule applications. Anypoint Exchange, Anypoint Design Center, and Anypoint Management Center are part of the control Plane.
  • Runtime plane: This consists of the components mainly responsible for the deployment of your Mule applications. The Mule runtime engine, Anypoint connectors, and runtime...