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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 MuleSoft’s integration capabilities with Salesforce

We have previously studied connectors, accelerators, templates, and so on to integrate with Salesforce. These are the most commonly used mechanisms. Let’s now explore other integration capabilities that can be leveraged with MuleSoft and Salesforce.

The Bulk API

In order to process voluminous data efficiently, you can make use of the Bulk API v2.

You can perform operations such as creating, getting, deleting queries using the MuleSoft connectors for the Bulk API v2 (see Figure 12.23). This helps you to easily integrate Salesforce objects and process large volumes of records asynchronously. You can process these records in one go and thus optimize your integration. For instance, if we want to retrieve and process the personal details of all customers, we can use the Create job bulk api v 2 connector from Mule Palette.

Figure 12.23 – Bulk API v2 connectors

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