Hands-on MuleSoft Anypoint platform Volume 2: MuleSoft Anypoint Studio Payload, Components, Flow Controls, Scopes and Error Handling (English Edition)

By Nanda Nachimuthu

This book is aimed to teach the readers how to design RAML APIs using Anypoint Platform. It also focuses on popular topics such as System Integration, API Led Connectivity, and Centre for Enablement and RAML. It will show how to use, call and test free mock REST APIs. The readers can also work with some commercially available license-based APIs.
Furthermore, the book will explain most of the examples provided by RAML.org so that you can simulate it from your local system. This book will then help you develop your RESTful API specification for adding, retrieving, updating and deleting data for a business entity. Later, you will learn how to use the MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Designer for designing and simulating your RAML API design specifications. By the end, you will be able to develop an end to end RAML API using the MuleSoft Anypoint Studio.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BPB Online LLP
• Release date: Jan 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9789389898675

Book preview

CHAPTER 1

Start Project

Introduction

MuleSoft Anypoint Studio is an Integrated Development Environment where you can develop your Mule Flows, Test, and Deploy. Volume 2 is focusing on the topics like features of Anypoint Studio, how to develop mule flows, the various components of Anypoint Studio, and so on.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

Volume 1: quick revisit

How to approach each volume?

Anypoint Studio

Basics

Key facilities

Help features

Project creation

Mule project

Domain project

Mule modules

Open template

Exchange examples

Import project

Objectives

After studying this chapter, you should be able to understand:

Anypoint Studio

Anypoint Studio important features

Project creation scenarios in Anypoint Studio

Mule modules

Global configurations

About target audience

Anybody who is willing to become a MuleSoft API Designer or MuleSoft Developer can read this book to gain knowledge about Anypoint Studio. No prior knowledge like programming skills or specific domain-based exposure required for grasping the concepts are explained in this book. The audience can simply follow the steps given in this book to achieve the desired result. As we are keeping all types of audiences like freshers and non-programmers in mind while designing this book, we are making sure that after reading this book, the audience can handle the features of Anypoint Studio and even future releases like a pro. We have provided numerous screenshots that are taken after executing in a proper environment and provided the sample code of the same for the readers’ better understanding of how the input configurations and output of each MuleSoft flow will look like. On the other hand, we are keeping the non-programming Business Experts and top-level management people in mind, so that the examples and procedures given in this book can be read by them thoroughly without bothering about practicing them in a system. In this way, even the non-programmers and developers can understand the internals of the development environment of a typical MuleSoft