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Systems, connectors and apps in an integration solution
How to break an integration solution into its constituents: the systems and the APIs they expose, the connectors (endpoint-based or operation-based) that reach them, the integration application that routes and transforms data between them, and the API-led layer each API belongs to.
Deconstruct an integration solution into its integration system constituents.
~5 min read · 4 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Deconstruct a described solution into systems, the APIs they expose, connectors and the integration application.
- Explain why the integration application lives outside the systems it connects.
- Distinguish endpoint-based from operation-based connectors and state what a connector saves the developer.
- Describe what a specific connector, such as Salesforce Connector, handles and does not handle.
- Label each API in a solution as a System, Process or Experience API.
Key terms:
- API: a way to access information from a system using its exposed functionality rather than the UI.
- Connector: a pre-built software package that helps a Mule app interact with an external application or data source.
- Integration application: the flow that lets independently designed applications work together.
- Message processor: logic inside the integration application that routes, modifies and maps data.
Key facts
Where the integration app lives
- Detail
- Outside both connected systems
Integration app parts
- Detail
- Inbound connectors, message processors, outbound connectors
Connectors from MuleSoft
- Detail
- 250+
Connector advantage
- Detail
- Connect without knowing every detail of programming to the target
Connector metadata
- Detail
- Infers target metadata to ease DataWeave transformation
Salesforce Connector limits
- Detail
- Not every operation; no Chatter API or Tooling API
System API role
- Detail
- Connects to core systems and shields systems of record
- Which lifecycle stages does MuleSoft say an API has?
- Why is a pre-packaged two-system integration rare in the integration space?
- When a connector infers a target system's metadata, what gets easier?
- Which authentication types does Salesforce Connector support?
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