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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

Exploring Salesforce connectors

Ever since the acquisition of MuleSoft by Salesforce in 2018, there has been a major advancement in terms of integrating MuleSoft and Salesforce. Several connectors and templates are offered to users that help to ease Salesforce and MuleSoft integration. This also helps us to unlock data present in silos and benefits in retrieving, transforming, and analyzing the data. We can pair MuleSoft with several Salesforce tools and components such as Tableau, Slack, Einstein Analytics, Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, and so on. This enables us to solve complex transformations. We can also receive Platform Events and publish Platform Event messages with the Salesforce connector. This helps us to stream API events.

Let us understand the different types of Salesforce connectors and how to use them.

Connectors, by far, are the most used and easiest means of integrating Salesforce with MuleSoft.

Let’s have a look at the connectors in Mule Palette, which...