Mulesoft Tutorial: Key features and Advantages updated 2019
MuleSoft is a software company that provides integration software for connecting applications, devices and various data. Basically, the company aims at integrating all your applications so that the data flow is seamless throughout all the applications irrespective of the device used to access the application. MuleSoft is software that gives a coordination stage to interface applications, information and APIs crosswise over on-premises and distributed computing situations. To integrate both on-premises and also in the cloud.
Mulesoft Guide – Mulesoft Tutorial: Key features and Advantages updated 2019
- Cloud Hub
- Any point Visualizer
- Anypoint Monitoring
- Exchange
- Run-time Manager
- Analytics
- Connectors
- Any point studio
- API Manager
- Designer
Cloud Hub:
What if all the above components were available on a cloud and you need not install anything on your machine to design, build, deploy and monitor your API? Well, Cloud Hub does that for you. It is a managed service offered by MuleSoft which doesn’t need the developer to install software and hardware to operate their API and application. It is also known as multi-tenant Integration Platform like iPaaS.
Anypoint Visualizer:
Anypoint Visualizer displays graph views of different aspects of an application. You can use the graph to explore your application network and view multiple metrics, such as throughput, response time, and errors for each node in your network. Use cases for Anypoint Visualizer include architectural review, compliance, troubleshooting, and security. Anypoint Visualizer also enables you to view various metrics including throughput, response time, and errors for each node within your network.
Anypoint Visualizer provides a real-time, graphical representation of the APIs, and Mule applications that are running. It also displays third-party systems that are invoked by a Mule API or an application within your application network. The data displayed in the graph is dynamically updated and does not need any prior configuration. Additionally, the data displayed is secure, as only users with the standard permissions can view the application network graph.
Anypoint Monitoring:
Understanding the state of your
infrastructure and systems is an important factor for ensuring the reliability
and stability of the services. As part of Anypoint Platform, Anypoint
Monitoring provides transparency into integrations across your app network. The
monitoring tools provides detailed feedback from Mule flows and components in
your app network.
Operations and development teams use these monitoring tools to diagnose issues and prescribe solutions to behaviour that negatively impacts the performance. The monitoring tools are designed to reduce the time to detect and resolve the issues through aggregated metrics, data visualization tools, alerts for issues, and a log aggregation system.
Mainly, Anypoint Monitoring provides ways to:
- Aggregate and map metrics across dependent systems dynamically.
- Configure dashboards and alerts to reduce the meantime to the identification of issues.
- Store and search log data at scale.
Anypoint Exchange:
Anypoint Exchange provides the feature of being able to share, discover and incorporate assets and resources into the applications. Anypoint Exchange helps you create API developer portals, view and test APIs, It also helps to simulate data for APIs (Mocking Service), create assets, and use API Notebooks to describe and test API functions.
Once you log into Exchange, you can create assets for APIs, connectors, examples, API Notebooks, and custom assets.
Run-time Manager:
The main use of Runtime Manager is to deploy and manage all your Mule applications from one location, whether your apps are running in the cloud, on-premises, or on Runtime Fabric. Runtime Manager is designed especially for handling Mule applications, and deploying them to the available Mule runtime instances in a Cloud Hub virtual worker, or an on-premises server (server group, cluster, and so on), or Runtime Fabric.
Analytics:
Now that your API is fully functional, you would want to track the performance and usage of your API. You can do it using Anypoint Analytics. It has an interactive dashboard that lets you visualize your API’s metrics on real-time. You can also create your own graphs and charts to focus on the metrics of your interest. The analytics also capture performance issues which are crucial for bugging and debugging.
Connectors:
Anypoint Connectors facilitate integrations with many third-party APIs. Modules are extensions to the Mule runtime that you can use while building a Mule application.
Some of the Mule 4 connectors are:
- Adobe Marketo
- Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS
- AMQP
- Anypoint MQ Connector 2.x and Anypoint MQ Connector 3.x
- Blend
- BMC Remedy
- Box
- CAQH
- Cassandra
- CloudHub
- Database
- EDIFACT EDI, TRADACOMS EDI, X12 EDI
- File
- FTP
- FTPS
- HDFS (Hadoop)
- HL7 EDI, HL7 MLLP
- HTTP
- IBM CTG
- IBM MQ
- JMS
- Kafka
- LDAP
- Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Operations, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft MSMQ, Microsoft Powershell, Microsoft Service Bus, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Windows Gateway Services
- MongoDB
- Neo4J
- NetSuite, NetSuite OpenAir
- Object Store
- Oracle EBS 12.2, Oracle EBS 12.1, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle Siebel
- Redis
Any point studio:
Anypoint Studio features enhance your productivity while building Mule applications:
- Instant run of your Mule application inside a local runtime
- Visual editors to configure API definition files and Mule domains
- Push changes to a local running app to test changes
- Integration with Exchange to import templates, examples, definitions and other resources from your Anypoint Platform organization
- Embedded unit testing framework
- Built-in support to deploy to Cloud Hub
Anypoint Studio 7.x only supports Mule 4.x projects, and Studio 6.x only supports Mule 3.x. It is not possible to embed Mule 3.x runtimes or earlier versions into Anypoint Studio 7.x, or to embed Mule 4.x or later runtimes into Anypoint Studio 6.x or earlier versions.
API Manager:
API Manager is a part of Anypoint Platform for managing APIs. As an Anypoint Platform user, you might be familiar with different environments in the context of deploying APIs. In API Manager 2.x, an integration of Anypoint Platform components extends the use of environments in Runtime Manager to API management. The support for environments in the components of Anypoint Platform eliminates the need to construct version names to reflect an environment. Restricting access and managing environments is also simplified.
In API Manager you can use instances of one API in multiple environments, and you can also have multiple instances in the same environment. You can create one instance of an API that serves as proxy. You can create another to manage directly as an endpoint. You can apply caching policies, for example to the proxy, and throttling policies and security policies.
Designer:
It’s an online tool that developer can implement to design an API, and as well as share an API and share that design with the other people. So, the developer can also reuse some special components of an API like the security schema.