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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

Building, running, and testing a Mule application

We have explored various components, views, and perspectives of Anypoint Studio. Now it is time to put all of what we have learned together with a new project. The steps involved in every Mule project are build, run, and test. Let’s elaborate on each step.

Building the Mule application

In this section, let us learn how to create a new Mule project:

  1. Click the Create a Mule Project option from Package Explorer (see Figure 3.6) to create a new Mule application project, or go to the File menu, click New, and select Mule Project:

Figure 3.6 – Package Explorer

  1. Provide the project name as HelloWorld and leave the remaining settings as they are, then click the Finish button (see Figure 3.7):

Figure 3.7 – Project Settings

  • With this, we have successfully created the HelloWorld project.
  • Whenever we create a new project, the HTTP, Sockets...