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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

Introducing MuleSoft accelerators

Accelerators are predesigned Mule applications, API specifications, and documentation that help to speed up the implementation life cycle of a project. These predesigned applications are stored in Exchange as a template that can be downloaded as a .jar file in order to create a Mule application project.

When we develop an interface, we can take related templates from Exchange and customize them based on the requirements to speed up the development.

There are different accelerators available in Exchange to support different use cases for different businesses.

Try to download the SAP ECC Products System API SAP accelerator from Exchange as a .jar file and import it into Anypoint Studio.

It creates a Mule application with all the implementation details, as shown in Figure 13.27:

Figure 13.27 – Mule application created using SAP accelerator

Once created, we can customize and configure SAP ECC server details to...