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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

Getting started with API design

In order to get started, go to the Anypoint Platform sign-up page, where you can create a free trial account for 30 days.

You can click here to create a free account: https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/login/signup.

Note

In case you’re using your organization’s enterprise Anypoint Platform account, make sure you have the correct access rights to design, publish, and deploy the API.

Follow these steps to get started:

  1. Enter your details and sign up (see Figure 2.3).

Figure 2.3 – The Anypoint Platform sign-up page

  1. Once completed, you’ll be taken to the homepage of Anypoint Platform – MuleSoft’s iPaaS platform. Navigate to Design Center from the three dashes in the left corner of the home page (see Figure 2.4).

Figure 2.4 – The Anypoint Platform dashboard

You can start writing your API using any simple editor, but it becomes a...