MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Development: Fundamentals

PART 1: Building Application Networks with Anypoint Platform

• Module 1: Introducing application networks and API-led connectivity

  • Explain what an application network is and its benefits
  • Describe how to build an application network using API-led connectivity
  • Explain what web services and APIs are
  • Make calls to secure and unsecured APIs

• Module 2: Introducing Anypoint Platform

  • Describe the benefits of Anypoint Platform and MuleSoft’s approach to be successful with it
  • Describe the role of each component in building application networks
  • Navigate Anypoint Platform
  • Locate APIs and other assets needed to build integrations and APIs in Anypoint Exchange
  • Build basic integrations to connect systems using Flow Designer

• Module 3: Designing APIs

  • Define APIs with RAML, the Restful API Modeling Language
  • Mock APIs to test their design before they are built
  • Make APIs discoverable by adding them to the private Anypoint Exchange
  • Create public API portals for external developers

• Module 4: Building APIs

  • Use Anypoint Studio to build, run, and test Mule applications
  • Use a connector to connect to databases
  • Use the graphical DataWeave editor to transform data
  • Create RESTful interfaces for applications from RAML files
  • Connect API interfaces to API implementations
  • Synchronize changes to API specifications between Anypoint Studio and Anypoint Platform

• Module 5: Deploying and managing APIs

  • Describe the options for deploying Mule applications
  • Deploy Mule applications to CloudHub
  • Use API Manager to create and deploy API proxies
  • Use API Manager to restrict access to API proxies

PART 2: Building Applications with Anypoint Studio

• Module 6: Accessing and modifying Mule events

  • Log event data
  • Debug Mule applications
  • Read and write event properties
  • Write expressions with the DataWeave expression language
  • Create variables

• Module 7: Structuring Mule applications

  • Create applications composed of multiple flows and subflows
  • Pass events between flows using asynchronous queues
  • Encapsulate global elements in separate configuration files
  • Specify application properties in a separate properties file and use them in the application
  • Describe the purpose of each file and folder in a Mule project
  • Define and manage application metadata

• Module 8: Consuming Web services

  • Consume web services that have an API (and connector) in Anypoint Exchange
  • Consume RESTful web services
  • Consume SOAP web services
  • Pass parameters to SOAP web services using the Transform Message component
  • Transform data from multiple services to a canonical format

• Module 9: Controlling event flow

  • Multicast events
  • Route events based on conditions
  • Validate events

• Module 10: Handling errors

  • Handle messaging errors at the application, flow, and processor level
  • Handle different types of errors, including custom errors
  • Use different error scopes to either handle an error and continue execution of the parent flow or propagate an error to the parent flow
  • Set the success and error response settings for an HTTP Listener
  • Set reconnection strategies for system errors

• Module 11: Writing DataWeave transformations

  • Write DataWeave expressions for basic XML, JSON, and Java transformations
  • Write DataWeave transformations for complex data structures with repeated elements
  • Define and use global and local variables and functions
  • Use DataWeave functions
  • Coerce and format strings, numbers, and dates
  • Define and use custom data types
  • Call Mule flows from DataWeave expressions
  • Store DataWeave scripts in external files

PART 3: Building Applications to Synchronize Data

• Module 12: Triggering flows

  • Read and write files
  • Trigger flows when files are added, created, or updated
  • Trigger flows when new records are added to a database table
  • Schedule flows to run at a certain time or frequency
  • Persist and share data in flows using the Object Store
  • Publish and consume JMS messages

• Module 13: Processing records

  • Process items in a collection using the For Each scope
  • Process records using the Batch Job scope
  • Use filtering and aggregation in a batch step