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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 REST, HTTP, and SOAP

REST and SOAP are two different approaches to implementing an API design and HTTP is the data transfer protocol that supports REST APIs. In this section, we shall learn a bit more about them.

While we’re mainly going to focus on the creation of a REST API, it’s equally essential to know the difference between REST and SOAP APIs so that you can decide wisely what type of API suits your organization’s requirements.

REST

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It represents a modern architectural style for designing an API.

The features of a REST API are:

  • A REST API accommodates stateless client-server architectural models, and the data is transferred over the HTTP/HTTPS protocol.
  • It supports several data types such as XML, JSON, plain text, and HTML, which makes it easily consumable. JSON is the most widely used data type as it’s a human-readable language.
  • It is lightweight and compatible...