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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

Designing Your API

In the previous chapter, we learned about MuleSoft and its capabilities. Also, we’ve gained some insights on APIs, API-led connectivity, and what we’re trying to build – an API network.

After having a basic understanding of the fundamental concepts of MuleSoft, in this chapter, we shall learn about the life cycle of an API design, compare various API design modeling languages, and learn various aspects of API design and API fragments. We will also get hands-on practice designing an API specification using the RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML).

API design is a primary and crucial step toward building a successful application network; the goal of this chapter is to enable you to design an API using the best practices and industry standards.

Here is what you can expect from this chapter:

  • The life cycle of an API
  • An introduction to REST, HTTP, and SOAP
  • Getting started with OAS and RAML
  • The basics of API design
  • ...