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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 learned about Salesforce integration with MuleSoft. We have studied different approaches to tackle integration such as the use of connectors, accelerators, and templates. We have explored MuleSoft Composer for Salesforce, learned about its capabilities, and created flows using it. We have also studied other integration capabilities such as connecting with a topic listener, the Bulk API, CDC events, and so on.

Learning about various integration techniques with Salesforce will help you to choose the best integration approach.

In the next chapter, we’ll learn more about commonly used MuleSoft connectors such as file-based modules, SOAP connectors, VM queues, and so on. We will also understand some industry-based use cases and how to optimize integrations. In order to ace industry-based integration challenges, it’s essential to learn about frequently used connectors and some best practices.