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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

Downloading and installing Anypoint Studio

In this section, we will learn how to download and install Anypoint Studio. The first step begins with downloading a software file to the computer, which may take a few minutes as the file size is around 2 GB. Afterward, we will install and launch Studio. Let’s begin with downloading now.

Downloading Anypoint Studio

These steps can be followed for a simple and easy download:

  1. Go to https://mulesoft.com/studio. Select the operating system (OS), Windows, Linux, or macOS, as per the computer’s OS, and fill in the other required information.
  2. Now, click Download.

The .zip (Windows/macOS)/.tar.gz (Linux) file of the latest version of Anypoint Studio is downloaded to the computer.

The Anypoint Studio file is bundled with the following components:

  • Mule runtime engine
  • DataWeave
  • MUnit
  • MUnit Studio Plugin
  • Eclipse
  • Maven
  • AdoptOpenJDK

Now that we’ve downloaded the...