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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have studied different deployment models such as CloudHub, RTF, PCE, and standalone runtime. We have also learned about different deployment environments such as fully cloud-hosted, fully customer-hosted, and hybrid. We have explored the pros and cons of the deployment environment and when to opt for a particular environment and a model. Apart from this, we have also seen how to deploy a Mule application on CloudHub and on-premises systems.

We have also learned the basics of CI/CD integrations with the help of the Mule Maven plugin. We have seen the importance of the Mule Maven plugin while deploying a Mule application.

In order to automate and make your deployment process hassle-free, it’s essential to be aware of the basics of deployment.

In the next chapter, we shall learn about API security and how to implement API security using MuleSoft.

Let’s get some hands-on practice by solving an assignment and doing a quiz.