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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 Mule views and perspectives

The views and perspectives of any IDE can be customized based on the user’s preference. A perspective is nothing but a collection of views. Let’s learn about different views and perspectives.

Views

Views in Anypoint Studio are the graphical representation of project metadata or properties for the active editor window. We can easily maximize, minimize, and remove views from the active window. The following are some of the views in Studio:

  • Mule Palette: This manages modules and connectors.
  • Mule Properties: This allows you to edit the properties of the module that is currently selected in the canvas.
  • Package Explorer: This displays the Mule project folder and files.
  • Console: This contains errors and other information about the embedded Mule runtime.
  • Problems: This shows a list of issues that occurred in the project.
  • Outline: This displays the structure of a Mule flow that is opened in the canvas.
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