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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

To get the most out of this book

You will need a version of Anypoint Studio 7.x installed on your computer – the latest version, if possible. Examples have been tested using Anypoint Studio 7.12 on macOS. However, they should work with future minor version releases too.

You will need a web browser installed on your computer to access Anypoint Platform and the DataWeave Playground. Examples have been tested using Google Chrome on macOS. However, other browsers such as Safari or Firefox should work too.

You will need a REST client application installed on your computer to make requests to the APIs. Examples have been tested using Postman v9 on macOS and Windows. However, other tools such as an advanced REST client or curl should work too.

Software/hardware covered in the book

Operating system requirements

Anypoint Studio 7.12

Windows 11 or macOS

Anypoint Platform and MuleSoft Composer

Any browser

Postman or any similar API client tool

Postman v9 (Windows 64-bit), Mac (Intel chip/Apple chip), or Linux (x64)

Google Chrome

Windows 11 or macOS

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.