MuleSoft Overview

Pankaj Badi
4 min readApr 20, 2022

Basic of the MuleSoft and Tools needed on your local system while running any mule project.

  1. Meet Max from Mule.

2. Salesforce Completes Acquisition of MuleSoft.

3. With MuleSoft, Salesforce now provides one of the world’s leading platforms for building application networks that connect enterprise apps, data and devices across any cloud and on-premise — whether they connect with Salesforce or not.

4. MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform will also be part of Salesforce Integration Cloud, which will enable all enterprises to surface their data — regardless of where it resides — to deliver intelligent, connected customer experiences across all channels and touchpoints.

5. Leading companies, including Coca-Cola, Barclays and Unilever, rely on MuleSoft to change and innovate faster, deliver differentiated customer experiences, and increase operational efficiency.

6. Need Account for MuleSoft Training , Any point Platform and Dataweave link.

https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/login/

https://training.mulesoft.com/

https://developer.mulesoft.com/learn/dataweave/

— Here you can write the dataweave logic for any structure.

7. What is API Led Connectivity?

System API:

System APIs that can understand the modern system’s language, then they can communicate by exchanging data. All MuleSoft APIs are organized in the network and are assigned different roles

Process API:

Process APIs are responsible for processing the extracted data and performing some logic

Experiences API:

Experience APIs deal with formatting the data to be presented to different media devices like desktops, mobiles, apps etc.

8. Tools needed on your Local System

Java 8 version or above: Download the java.

MuleSoft has Mule 3 and Mule 4 in the studio.

Anypoint Studio: Download the studio from the below link.

https://www.mulesoft.com/lp/dl/studio

Postman : Download the postman to send the request and get the response while running the project on your local.

9. Anypoint Studio?

Any point Studio: To design your APIs on your local with the help of the studio.

It is open source so you can download that as well.

deploy your APIs to Any point Platform using the studio.

Lots of connectors are available from Mule Pallet.

if you want to add few more than you can take from the search exchange option in the studio.

10. Anypoint Platform?

  • MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform is a unified, single solution for iPaaS and a full life-cycle API management. The Anypoint Platform consists of the following major components:

Anypoint Security,

Anypoint Design center,

Anypoint Management center,

Anypoint Exchange,

Runtime engine & services

11. Dataweave in MuleSoft?

We write the dataweave in MuleSoft for doing Transformation in Transform Message.

There are so many function we can use accordingly our use case and requirement.

By using dataweave we can write data in any format like JSON,XML,CSV and many more.

12. On-premise and CloudHub deployment?

Anypoint Platform is the same product whether a customer uses Cloudhub or installs on their private Cloud. Note though that the Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition (PCE) set up is typically 6 months behind in terms of product releases.

The two key parts of the product, Control and Runtime Plane, are in different locations depending on the chose deployment option. The Control Plane can only be customer-managed when opting for a PCE deployment model.

Conclusion:

Overview steps to setup the Anypoint Studio and Anypoint Platform in the MuleSoft.

References:

  1. https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/login/
  2. https://www.mulesoft.com/lp/dl/studio.
  3. https://training.mulesoft.com/
  4. https://developer.mulesoft.com/learn/dataweave/

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Pankaj Badi

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