Anypoint Platform Development: Fundamentals (Mule 3) Training

Curriculum:

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
• Explore API directories and portals
• Make calls to secure and unsecured APIs

Module 2: Introducing Anypoint Platform

• Identify all the components of Anypoint Platform
• 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 Anypoint Exchange
• Create API portals for developers to learn how to use APIs

Module 4: Building APIs

• Use Anypoint Studio to create flows graphically
• 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 a RAML file
• Connect API interfaces to API implementations

Module 5: Deploying and Managing APIs

• Describe the options for deploying Mule applications
• Use properties in Mule applications so they can be easily moved between environments
• Deploy Mule applications to CloudHub
• Use API Manager to create and deploy API proxies to CloudHub
• Restrict access to API proxies

PART 2: Building Applications with Anypoint Studio

Module 6: Accessing and Modifying Mule Messages

• Log message data
• Debug Mule applications
• Read and write message properties
• Write expressions with Mule Expression Language (MEL)
• Create variables

Module 7: Structuring Mule Applications

• Create and reference flows and subflows
• Pass messages between flows using the Java Virtual Machine (VM) transport
• Investigate variable persistence through subflows and flows and across transport barriers
• Encapsulate global elements in separate configuration files
• Explore the files and folder structures of Mule projects

Module 8: Consuming Web Services

• Consume RESTful web services with and without parameters
• Consume RESTful web services that have RAML definitions
• Consume SOAP web services
• Use DataWeave to pass parameters to SOAP web services

Module 9: Handling Errors

• Describe the different types of exception strategies
• Handle messaging exceptions in flows
• Create and use global exception handlers
• Specify a global default exception strategy

Module 10: Controlling Message Flow

• Route messages based on conditions
• Multicast messages
• Filter messages
• Validate messages

Module 11: Writing DataWeave Transformations

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

Module 12: Connecting to Additional Resources

• Connect to SaaS applications
• Connect to files
• Poll resources
• Connect to JMS queues
• Discover and install connectors not bundled with Anypoint Studio

Module 13: Processing Records

• Use the For Each scope to process items in a collection individually
• Use the batch job element (EE) to process individual records
• Trigger batch jobs using polls
• Use batch jobs to synchronize data from legacy databases to SaaS applications