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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

Configuring Web Service Consumer Connector

Web Service Consumer Connector is a connector that helps to call a SOAP-based web service using the Consume operation.

Let us see the configuration details that are required in the Consume operation. We mainly need a Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) file. This is the specification file containing SOAP web service details, such as the endpoint, request, and response structure and a list of all its operations.

In this example, we will call a SOAP-based web service that is running on the same machine. But in real time, we will call the actual web service URL to perform a specific operation.

Let us see the steps involved to call the SOAP web service:

  1. Create an HTTP Listener with /soapdemo to trigger the Mule application.
  2. Drag and drop the Consume operation from Web Service Consumer Connector.
  3. In the Consume properties, provide the WSDL location and click the refresh icon in Service. It loads the remaining information...