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Module 2: Introducing Anypoint

Platform

At the end of this module, you should be able to

• 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
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Introducing Anypoint Platform

Anypoint Platform uniquely enables the building of

an application network

Anypoint Platform Application network

Anypoint Design Center Anypoint Management Center

Anypoint Exchange

Experience

Process

System
Mule Runtime

Anypoint Connectors

Runtime services

Hybrid cloud

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API
SaaS
Mgmt

ETL B2B
The most advanced
enterprise platform
for designing,
Pub
/Sub
IoT developing and
managing APIs and
integrations
ESB Micro
/SOA services
● Uniquely built as
a single product
Anypoint Platform ● Deploy anywhere
● Wide range of
use cases

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1 Design Center, 1 Mgmt Center, 1 Runtime

Admin, Ops, Ad-hoc

Specialists App devs
DevOps integrators

Rapid Collaboration Visibility

development and self-service and control

Design Center Exchange Management Center

Lean runtime
Mule

On-premises & Hybrid Hosted by Cloud service providers

Private Cloud MuleSoft
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Design once, deploy anywhere

Anypoint Design Center

Anypoint Management Center

On-prem Private cloud fully managed iPaaS

Databases FTP, Files Web services SaaS Apps On-prem Apps Social Apps IoT Partners
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Unique benefits for each layer

Speed of delivery
Application network

Actionable visibility

API-led connectivity

Secure by design

Integration API mgmt Future-proof architecture

Intentional self-service

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Achieving success with Anypoint

Platform

The 3 aspects of the MuleSoft Catalyst approach

Define outcomes
with clear KPIs
and align
stakeholders.
https://catalyst.mulesoft.com

Get up and
running with Ensure your
Anypoint Platform organization is ready
and start building to use and adopt the
APIs and Anypoint Platform
integrations

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Catalyst has 6 Playbooks to guide best practices

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MuleSoft has a blueprint for you to follow

Plan for success Establish the foundation Build to scale Measure impact
Agree on business outcomes
and KPIs Measure business
Business Develop the overall success
Monitor and manage Refresh the success plan
outcomes
outcomes plan

Define Anypoint platform vision

and roadm ap Refine and scale Anypoint Measure Anypoint
Design Anypoint platform Deploy Anypoint Platform
Platform platform KPIs
architecture and im plem entation
plan
Technology
Prioritize IT projects and quick
delivery Define reference architecture Onboard additional project
wins Measure project KPIs
Launch initial projects and teams
Staff and onboard the project
teams quick wins Launch additional projects

Build and publish

Assess integration capabilities foundational assets
Drive consumption Measure C4E KPIs
Establish the C4E operating m odel Evangelize

Onboard MuleSoft Staff, train and launch team

Org Monitor Anypoint Platform
Determine the internal support Publish support guidance and Measure support KPIs
enablement operating model self-serve materials

Develop the broader training plan

Agree on initial roles
Launch experiential learning Update training plan Conduct skills assessment
Train the initial team (s)
opportunities

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Introducing the components of

Anypoint Platform

API development cycle: API specification

API
spec
(RAML)

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API development cycle: API implementation

Service
with APIs

API
spec
(RAML)

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API development cycle: API management

Service
with APIs

API
Spec
(RAML)

Visualizer

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API lifecycle: Discovery and consumption

Consumption

Discoverable
Exchange Reusable
assets
Feedback and
usage metrics

Self-service

Production
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Anypoint Exchange

• A library of assets
• The central repository that is critical to the success
of building an application network
• Ensures assets are published somewhere they can
be discovered and reused

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What does (and should) Exchange contain?

• MuleSoft-provided public assets available in all accounts

to all users
– You can work with MuleSoft to get APIs and connectors certified
and added

• Private content only available to people in your org

– Assets added by anyone in your org are added to your private
Exchange

• Your organization should populate it to contain

everything you need to build your integration projects
– Including APIs, connectors, diagrams, videos, links, and more

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REST APIs and API portals in Anypoint Exchange

• When a REST API is added to Exchange, an API portal is

automatically created for it

• An API portal has

– Auto-generated API documentation
– An API console for consuming and testing APIs
– An automatically generated API endpoint that uses a mocking service to
allow the API to be tested without having to implement it

• API portals can be shared with both internal and external users

• In the last module, you used a public API portal created from
Anypoint Exchange for a private organization (Muletraining)
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REST connectors in Anypoint Exchange

• When a RAML 1.0 API specification is added to Exchange, a

connector is automatically created for it
– The connector can be used in Mule applications to make calls to that API
– REST Connect is the name of the technology that performs this conversion

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Using Exchange: Success of C4E in action

Project 1
LoB

Is there an Should we
asset? create one?

Exchange

Central
APIs
IT Templates

Innovation
teams

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Walkthrough 2-1: Explore Anypoint Platform and

Anypoint Exchange

• Explore Anypoint Platform

• Browse Anypoint Exchange
• Review an API portal for a REST API in Exchange
• Discover and make calls to the Training: American Flights API in the
public Exchange

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Building integration applications

and APIs with Design Center

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Design Center anatomy

Created with Flow Designer Created with API Designer

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Design Center applications

Application Purpose In this course Additional courses

Flow Web app for building integration 2 WTs • Anypoint Platform:

Designer apps that connect systems and Flow Design
consume APIs

API Web app for designing, Module 3 • Anypoint Platform:

Designer documenting, and mocking APIs API Design

Anypoint Desktop IDE for implementing Module 4

Studio APIs and building integration In Fundamentals:
applications Modules 6-13

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Both Flow Designer and Anypoint Studio create Mule

applications

• Mule applications can be created

– Visually using Flow Designer or Anypoint Studio
– By writing code (primarily XML) using Anypoint Studio (or other tools)

• Under the hood, Mule applications are Java applications using Spring

• Mule applications are deployed to a Mule runtime

– Mule runtimes can be MuleSoft-hosted in the cloud (CloudHub) or customer-
hosted in the cloud or on-prem

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Mule is the runtime engine of Anypoint Platform

• A lightweight Java-based enterprise service bus (ESB) and

integration platform that allows developers to connect apps together
quickly and easily, enabling them to exchange data
– Acts as a transit system for carrying data between apps (the Mule)
– Can connect all systems including web services, JMS, JDBC, HTTP, & more

• Decouples point-to-point integrations by having all (non-Mule) apps

talk to the bus (to a Mule runtime) instead of directly to each other

• Can be deployed anywhere, can integrate and orchestrate events in

real time or in batch, and has universal connectivity

• Enforces policies for API governance

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Mule 4 applications and flows

• Mule applications receive events, process them, and route them to

other endpoints
• Mule applications accept and process a Mule event through a
series of Mule event processors plugged together in a flow
Flow

Mule event Mule event Mule event Connector

source processor(s) processor(s) endpoint
Mule event Mule event Mule event

• An application can consist of

– A single flow
– Multiple flows
– Multiple flows connected together
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What’s in a typical Mule 4 flow?

• A Mule event source that initiates the execution of the flow

– Can be triggered by an event such as
• A consumer request from a mobile device
• A change to data in a database
• The creation of a new customer ID in a SaaS application

• Mule event processors that transform, filter, enrich, and process

the event and its message

Flow

Mule event Mule event Mule event Connector

source processor(s) processor(s) endpoint
Mule event Mule event Mule event

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Creating integration
applications with Flow Designer

Flow Designer anatomy

Application
status

Cards

Project
explorer

Logs

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Running Flow Designer applications

• When you create a Mule application project in Design Center

– A new application is created and opened in Flow Designer
– The application is deployed to a MuleSoft-hosted Mule runtime
(called a CloudHub worker) in the cloud and started
MuleSoft-hosted
runtime

• When you make changes to the application in Flow Designer and are
ready to test it
– You need to run the application again – which updates the application deployed
to the worker

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CloudHub workers

• A worker is a dedicated instance of Mule that runs an app

• Each worker
– Runs in a separate container from every other application
– Is deployed and monitored independently
– Runs in a specific worker cloud in a region of the world
• Workers can have a different memory capacity and
processing power
– Apps can be scaled vertically by changing the worker size
– Apps can be scaled horizontally by adding multiple workers
• There are workers in different environments
– Design (for Flow Designer apps only), Sandbox, Production, …
– Apps can be promoted from one environment to another
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Walkthrough 2-2: Create a Mule application with

Flow Designer

• Create a new Mule application project in Design Center

• Create an HTTP trigger for a flow in the application
• Add a Logger component
• Run and test the application
• View application information in Runtime Manager

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Accessing, querying, and

transforming data

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Accessing and modifying Mule 4 event data

Mule event
The data that passes through flows
Mule message in the app

Attributes Metadata contained in the message

header

Payload
The core info of the message -
the data the app processes

Metadata for the Mule event -

Variables can be defined and referenced in
the app processing the event
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Transforming data with DataWeave

• DataWeave 2.0 is the expression language for Mule

to access, query, and transform Mule 4 event data

• A JSON-like language that's built just for data query and

transformation use cases
– Full-featured and fully native framework

• Fully integrated with Flow Designer (and Anypoint Studio)

– Graphical interface with payload-aware development

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The Transform component

• Has input, output, and preview sections with both drag-and-drop and
script editors

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Walkthrough 2-3: Create an integration application

with Flow Designer that consumes an API

• Examine Mule event data for calls to an application

• Use the Training: American Flights API in Anypoint Exchange to get
all flights
• Transform data returned from an API to another format

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Summary

Summary: Anypoint Platform

• Anypoint Platform is a unified, hybrid integration platform that

creates a seamless application network of apps, data, and devices
with API-led connectivity

Anypoint Platform
Design
Anypoint Design Center

Secure Engage Manage

Anypoint Security Anypoint Exchange Anypoint Management
Center

Run
Mule

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Summary

• Use Anypoint Exchange as a central repository for assets so they

can be discovered and reused
– Populate it with everything you need to build your integration projects

• Use Flow Designer to build integration applications

– These are Mule 4 applications that are deployed to a Mule runtime
– To learn more, take the 1-day Anypoint Platform: Flow Design course

• Mule runtimes can be MuleSoft-hosted in the cloud (CloudHub) or

customer-hosted in the cloud or on-prem

• DataWeave 2.0 is the expression language for Mule to access, query,

and transform Mule 4 event data

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