MuleSoft for Salesforce developers : a practitioner's guide to deploying MuleSoft APIs and integrations for Salesforce enterprise solutions / Arul Christhuraj Alphonse, Alexandra Martinez, and Akshata Sawant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alphonse, Arul Christhuraj, author.

Martínez, Alexandra (Martínez Flores), author.

Sawant, Akshata, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application program interfaces (Computer software).

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (490 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, Limited, [2022]

Biography/History:

Christhuraj Alphonse Arul: Arul Christhuraj Alphonse works as a senior integration architect at Cognizant. He previously worked at Akmin Technologies, Quinnox, IBM, and TCS. He has over 18 years of experience in the integration and API domain and has designed over 1, 000 integrations. His educational qualifications include Master of Computer Applications and Master of Business Administration degrees, and his professional qualifications include MuleSoft Mentor, MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect, MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect, MuleSoft Certified Developer Level 1, and SoftwareAG webMethods Certified Professional. He is from Tamil Nadu, India, and currently lives in Singapore. He shares his knowledge through Udemy and the Tech Lightning YouTube channel. Martinez Alexandra: Alexandra Martinez is a developer advocate at MuleSoft, creating technical content to enable developers and architects to get started with MuleSoft's products. Before this, Alex worked as a MuleSoft developer and was part of the MuleSoft community as an Ambassadress and meetup leader for the Toronto, Online Spanish, and Women Who Mule chapters. Alex has 10+ years of experience in technology and has developed software in other languages, such as Java, Python, and PHP. Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Alexandra's MuleSoft career was key to moving to a different country, and she currently lives in Niagara Falls, Canada. Alex volunteers at organizations such as Women Who Code and Olascoaga MX to help close the gender gap in STEM careers. Sawant Akshata: Akshata Sawant is a developer advocate at MuleSoft. She's been evangelizing MuleSoft through her blogs, videos, and training sessions. She has around five years of experience as a MuleSoft developer. Apart from this, she's also a MuleSoft Certified Developer and an architect. Akshata has been an active member of the MuleSoft community and is also a former MuleSoft Ambassadress and a meetup leader for the London, Mumbai, and Manchester regions. Her roots go back to Mumbai but she's currently living her London dream. She's been a global speaker and mentors women in the integration ecosystem.

Summary:

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.

Design, secure, test, and deploy APIs with MuleSoft, and integrate it with Salesforce to maximize productivity Key Features Build, implement, transform, secure, test, and deploy APIs using Anypoint Studio and Anypoint Platform Integrate MuleSoft with Salesforce and other end systems to build an application network Enhance your Salesforce and MuleSoft skills and employability with interview and certification tips and tricks Book Description 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. What you will learn Understand how to use MuleSoft to achieve API-led connectivity Design and create documentation for your API Develop Mule applications and run them in Anypoint Studio Monitor your applications from Anypoint Platform Transform your data using DataWeave Use the CI/CD and Mule Maven plugins Run tests using MUnit and generate a code coverage report Use best practices to maintain coding standards Who this book is for This book is for Salesforce developers who want to get started with MuleSoft. Salesforce architects will also find the concepts covered in the book useful in designing Salesforce solutions. Prior knowledge of any programming language and some basic integration concepts will be helpful, alongside basic familiarity with Salesforce development and experience with at least one Salesforce API - including the SOAP API, REST API, Bulk API, or Streaming API.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Getting Started with MuleSoft

Chapter 1: Introduction to APIs and MuleSoft

Understanding the need for an integration tool

Introducing no-code and low-code technologies

Analyzing integrations

Understanding APIs

Reviewing the restaurant analogy

Exploring an API example

Analyzing API components

Listing the benefits of using APIs

Introducing MuleSoft

Listing MuleSoft's products

Understanding why MuleSoft is useful

Analyzing how MuleSoft helps Salesforce developers

Exploring application networks and the API-led connectivity approach

Understanding what application networks are

Analyzing the API-led connectivity approach

Summary

Questions

Answers

Chapter 2: Designing Your API

Understanding an API life cycle

Introducing REST, HTTP, and SOAP

REST

HTTP/HTTPS

SOAP

Getting started with OAS and RAML

OAS

RAML

Getting started with API design

URI parameter

Query parameter

API mocking

Best practices and tips

API design naming convention

Optimizing your API design

Assignments

Chapter 3: Exploring Anypoint Studio

Technical requirements

Downloading and installing Anypoint Studio

Downloading Anypoint Studio

Installing Anypoint Studio

Launching Anypoint Studio

Introducing the Mule Palette

Exploring the Mule project structure

Introducing Mule views and perspectives

Views

Building, running, and testing a Mule application

Building the Mule application

Running the Mule application

Testing the Mule application

Exporting and importing Mule files

Exporting a Mule application as a JAR file

Exporting a Mule application as a filesystem

Importing a Mule application from a JAR file

Importing a Mule application from the filesystem

Updating the theme in Anypoint Studio

Installing software updates in Anypoint Studio

Chapter 4: Introduction to Core Components

Getting familiar with a Mule flow

Exploring the types of Mule flow

Understanding the Mule event structure

Core components

Batch

Features of the Batch scope

The batch processing stages

A batch step

The batch aggregator

The batch job

Components

Custom Business Event

Dynamic Evaluate

Idempotent Message Validator

Invalidate Cache

Invalidate Key

Logger

Parse Template

Set Transaction Id

Transform Message

Endpoints

A Scheduler

Error handling

On Error Continue

On Error Propagate

Raise Error

Error Handler

Flow control

Choice

First Successful

Round Robin

Scatter-Gather

Scopes

Async

Cache

Flow

For Each

Parallel For Each

Sub Flow

Try

Until Successful

Transformers

Set Variable

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781801074223

1801074224

OCLC:

1344542301