MuleSoft Apps

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Last updated: Jul 05, 2022
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MuleSoft Apps are reusable extensions that enable you to integrate with third-party APIs, databases, and standard integration protocols. These Apps define the technical configurations required to connect to a target system. Using Mule Apps provides the following advantages:

  • Provides reusability, reducing code complexity. The apps can be used to connect to a target system without knowing the technical details required to execute a task in the target system.

  • Simplifies authenticating against the target system.

  • Makes code maintenance easier.

The Mule community provides a vast repository of connectors that can be used to integrate with Systems and Microservices that may not support a direct REST/HTTP connection. For example, you can use MuleSoft Apps to connect and perform actions on systems such as LDAP, Azure, AWS, SAP, Salesforce, SFTP, SSH. Likewise, you can use the MuleSoft Apps to connect to any relational database engine and execute SQL queries. Serviceaide Automation provides various out-of-the-box Mule Apps with discrete operations that can be used in your Automation Workflow. For more information, refer to Out-of-the-box MuleSoft Apps.

In addition to the OOTB Apps, you may also create your own MuleSoft apps with discrete operations using Anypoint Studio.

Anypoint Studio is a user-friendly IDE that can be used for designing and testing Mule Apps with discrete operations. It is an Eclipse-based IDE. It allows developers to easily drag and use the connectors from the Mule Palette and create workflows. It accelerates the implementation of integration and API development with prebuilt modules for querying backend systems, routing events, business transformation logic, and error handling. Anypoint studio provides the tools needed to build discrete operations and implement workflows. These operations are reusable and can be added to your business-specific workflows as needed.

Building your own Mule Apps and discrete operations follows the below process: