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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 MuleSoft Composer

As a Salesforce developer, you are already aware of how essential it is to unlock the data present in silos. MuleSoft Composer is a tool available in the Salesforce ecosystem that helps you to connect, transform, and integrate various end systems.

It’s a no-code platform that is accessible from a Salesforce developer account. Currently, it has around 14+ in-built connectors to connect with different end systems directly, such as Workday, NetSuite, Slack, Jira, Stripe, Asana, and so on. This list will continue to grow over time.

Before deep diving into the configuration of MuleSoft Composer, let’s understand its capabilities.

Capabilities of MuleSoft Composer

Let us now review the capabilities of MuleSoft Composer, in order to leverage it better:

  • Connects different end systems easily
  • You can synchronize, retrieve, and transform data from different end systems
  • No-code data transformation with if-else blocks...