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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

Secure Your API

In the previous chapter, we have learned how to deploy a Mule application, what the different deployment environments are, and how to choose your deployment environment.

There are several factors that need to be considered while choosing a deployment model; hence, it’s an important decision while building your application network.

We are also aware that APIs are responsible for carrying data/metadata and communicating with several end systems and, hence, are at a potentially high risk of being attacked. It’s important to secure your API and thereby protect your integration ecosystem. In this chapter, we shall learn about API security and the need for securing your API and Mule application.

We shall also focus on how to implement API security using MuleSoft and study several techniques with which you can secure your APIs.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • The need for API security
  • API security with MuleSoft
  • ...