Mulesoft Quickstart for Developers Training

00 Introduction

• Instructor Introduction
• Class Introduction
• Overview of this Week’s Class
• MuleSoft Introduction
  • (Information as also presented in the MuleLearning.com class “Executive Summary”)
  • Company History and Overview
  • Product Capabilities
  • Gartner’s Assessment of MuleSoft
  • MuleSoft’s Competition, an overview
  • MuleSoft’s Revenue History
  • MuleSoft’s Value Proposition

01 MuleSoft: An Architectural Introduction

• Data Integration Patterns Supported by MuleSoft
• MuleSoft as an Enterprise Service Bus Solution
• MuleSoft ESB Competitive Advantages
• MuleSoft Microservices Discussion
• Deployment Options: “On-prem” and “Cloud”
• Data Integration Problems: The Problem MuleSoft Solves
• Creating APIs with MuleSoft: An Overview of Anypoint Platform Tools
• API-Led Connectivity Explained
  • Experience APIs
  • Process APIs
  • System APIs
• MuleSoft Connectors: Ease of Development
• The MuleSoft IDE – Anypoint Studio
• Anypoint Platform Exchange: An Overview
• API Development Cycle vs. Traditional SDLC
• MuleSoft Security Options, Including Enterprise Security
• API Gateway Explained
• Continuous Integration Introduction
• Open Source vs Hardened Code / Community vs. Enterprise Editions

02 Installing Anypoint Studio

Every topic below includes lecture slides and instructor-led, hands-on activities in Mule 3 and Mule 4.

• Installing the JDK
• How to Install Anypoint Studio
  • Anypoint Studio version 6 for Mule Runtime version 3.9
  • Anypoint Studio version 7 for Mule Runtime version 4
• Troubleshooting the Installation

03 Create a MuleSoft Application in Anypoint Studio

Every topic below includes lecture slides and instructor-led, hands-on activities in Mule 3 and Mule 4.

• Create a Simple Mule 3 Application
• Create a Simple Mule 4 Application
• Create a Simple Application in the Anypoint Platform Design Center Flow Designer
• The HTTP Connector Explained
  • Inbound Listener, Outbound Requester
• HTTP Methods Explained
• Mule 3 Message Object Explained
• Connector vs Endpoint: What’s the difference?
• Dataweave Introduction
• Logger Introduction
• Mule 4 Event Objects Explained

04 Request Transform Debug

• Every topic below includes lecture slides and instructor-led, hands-on activities in Mule 3 and Mule 4.
• HTTP Parameters Explained
  • Query Parameters
  • URI Parameters
• An Overview of Debugging in Anypoint Studio
  • Perspectives
  • Debugger Port
  • Debugging Controls
  • Breakpoints
• An Introduction to Mule Expression Language (MEL)
• MEL vs. Dataweave
• Using HTTP as an Outbound Endpoint, Consuming a RESTful Web Service
• Dataweave Details
  • Transforming JSON to JSON
  • Message Preview
  • Creating Additional Targets (Variables and Properties) with Dataweave
• Design Center Flow Designer Demo

05 Overview of Anypoint Studio IDE

Every topic below includes lecture slides and instructor-led, hands-on activities in Mule 3 and Mule 4.

• Anypoint Studio Views
• Changing Fonts
• Installing Proxy Info
• Menu Options
• Shortcuts
• Anypointstudio.ini file
• Managing the Workspace
• Perspectives
• Saving, Restarting, Redeploying
• Installing Software Updates (with Cautions)

06 Deploying MuleSoft Applications

Every topic below includes lecture slides and instructor-led, hands-on activities in Mule 3 and Mule 4.

• Environment Configuration Management
  • Properties Files
  • Encrypting Properties for Security
• Working with HTTPS
• Deploy to Cloudhub
• Overview of the Runtime Manager
• Deploying to a Customer Hosted Mule Runtime
  • Working with YAML Files instead of Properties Files
  • Starting the Mule Runtime with Parameters
  • Folder Structure Explained
  • Hot-Deploying Mule Applications
• Runtime Manager Further Explained
  • Managing Applications
  • Settings
  • Applications Properties
  • Overriding Properties Explained
  • Application Logs

07 API Design with RAML

• Introducing the Anypoint Platform Design Center
  • Design Center IDE Features
  • File Browser
  • Editor
  • API Console
  • Shelf
• The Visual Designer Introduced
• The API Console Explained
• Importing Swagger Projects In To The Design Center
• RAML vs. Swagger: The Differences Explained
• Creating an API Specification with RAML
  • Using Auto-Completed
  • Resources (Nouns) and Nested Resources
  • Methods (Verbs)
  • Defining Parameters
    • Query Parameters
    • URI Parameters
    • Headers
  • HTTP Status Codes
  • Use Example Data
  • Documenting the API Spec with Descriptions and Display Names
  • Modularity / Code Reuse
    • Datatypes
    • Resource Types
    • Traits
    • The Confusing Differences Made Simple
  • Code Comments
  • Using the Mocking Service
  • Code Reuse Continued: RAML Fragments
  • The RAML Spec at RAML.org

08 API-Led Connectivity and Application Networks

In this section, students will get a clear understanding of the API-Led Connectivity design pattern.

• Class Discussion: Experience APIs, Process APIs and System APIs
• Maximize Reusability
• Process APIs Explained
• When Systems Both Consume and Provide Data (Experience APIs vs System APIs)

09 Anypoint Platform Exchange

• Class Discussion: Maximize Reuse By Making APIs Discoverable
• Exchange Walk-through
  • Library of Assets
  • API Fragments
  • Discoverability
  • View the Public Portal (Discussion of the Risks)
  • MuleSoft’s Assets vs. Company’s Assets
  • The Developer’s Portal, Developer’s Applications Explained

10 The API Kit

• Differences: Implementations, Interfaces, Proxies
• The API Kit Explained
• Create an API Interface with the API Kit
• The API Kit Router
• Private Flows
• Sample Data
• Folder src/main/api Explained
• Update an API Spec
  • Update RAML
  • Use API Kit to Update Interface
• Use Flow References to Connect Interfaces to Implementations

11 Proxies

• Setup and Deploy a Proxy for an API
• API Security
• API Analytics
• Usage Policies
• SLAs
• Manage an API not developed in MuleSoft

12 Flows and Subflows

Every topic below includes lecture slides and instructor-led, hands-on activities in Mule 3 and Mule 4.

• Flows Explained
  • Public Flows
  • Private Flows
  • Subflows
• Flow Reuse Best Practices Discussion
• Processing Strategies
• Mule 3 Messages and Mule 4 Events Explained
• Variables Scope

13 Database Connector

• Set up and Use a Database Connector
• Install .jar file
• Supported Operations Discussion
• Metadata Explorer Explained

14 File Connector

• Inbound vs. Outbound Endpoints
• Path
• Move to Directory
• Polling Frequency
• File Age
• File Name Regex Filter
• Adding Metadata to a File Endpoint
• Using a File Endpoint as a Requester (This is a popular request.  Optional activity: teach class to have a file endpoint read a file from the process section of a flow.)

15 Dataweave

• An Overview of Transformers
• Dataweave Advantages
  • Don’t Use Java!
  • Streaming Support
  • Data Transformation Language
• The Dataweave UI
  • Input, Output, Code, Preview, Targets
• Metadata
• Transforming an Object
• Transforming an Array
• Transforming
  • To JSON
  • To XML
• String Interpolation
• Operators
  • Formatting
  • Math
  • Filters
  • Grouping
  • Ordering

16 Consuming SOAP Web Services

• Use Web Service Consumer Connector (outbound endpoint)
• Viewing Exposed Metadata
• Using Dataweave to Prepare a SOAP Request

17 Error Handling

• Flow-level Error Handling
  • Mule 3
    • Catch Exception Strategies
    • Choice Exception Strategies
  • Mule 4
• Reusing Exception Strategies
• Global Default Exception Strategies

18 Flow Control

• Choice Router
• Scatter-Gather
• Dataweave Flatten Payload

19 Poll Scope and Batch Processing

• Poll Scope Setup
• Using Watermarks
• Batch Processing Initiation
  • Poll Scopes
  • Polling Connectors
  • Batch Execute
• Input
• Process Records and Asynchronous Processing of Batch Jobs with Batch Steps
• Filtering with Batch Steps
• On Complete Statistics Reporting

20 Salesforce

• An Introduction to the Salesforce Connector
• Get Account Data Sample

21 WMQ Connector

• Using Websphere MQ Connector for Messaging, an Introduction

22 Class Conclusion

• Class Survey