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Module 2: Introducing Anypoint

Platform

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

• 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

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Introducing the components of

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 development cycle: API specification

Exchange
API notebook

API portal

API
spec
(RAML)

API console

API designer
Mocking service

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API development cycle: API implementation

MUnit

Service
with APIs

API
spec
(RAML)

Anypoint Studio

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API development cycle: API management

API Analytics
API Manager

Service
with APIs

API
Spec
(RAML)

Runtime Manager
API Manager

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API lifecycle: Discovery and consumption

flow designer

Anypoint Studio Consumption

Discoverable
Exchange Reusable
assets
Feedback and
usage metrics

Self-service

Production
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Anypoint Platform: The components

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Anypoint Platform

• A unified, highly productive, hybrid integration platform that

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

• A collection of runtimes, frameworks, tools, and web applications

– Tools and frameworks for building applications
– Mule runtime for running applications and applying policies
• MuleSoft-hosted in the cloud or customer-hosted (on-prem or in the cloud)
– Web application for
• Discovering and learning about APIs and other assets
• Building integration applications that consume APIs
• Deploying, running, managing, and monitoring applications
• Defining and managing APIs
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Anypoint Platform: The web application

• MuleSoft-hosted in the cloud at [Link]

• Customer-hosted as part of Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition

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Core functionality of the web application

API designer Designing APIs

flow designer Building integration apps that consume APIs

Exchange Sharing, discovering, and exploring all the

resources needed for your integration projects
including creating public portals

API console, mocking Testing and simulating APIs

service, API notebook

Access Management Managing users

Runtime Manager Deploying apps to the cloud or on-prem

Managing and monitoring applications

API Manager Managing and monitoring APIs

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Introducing Anypoint Exchange

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

• API portals are automatically created for REST APIs added to

Exchange

• An API portal has

– Auto-generated API documentation
– An API console that provides a Postman-like experience 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

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Using Exchange: Success of C4E in action

LoB Project 1

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 & make calls to the
Training: American Flights API

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Building integration applications

and APIs with Design Center

Design Center anatomy

Created with API designer

Created with flow 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: Flow
designer apps that connect systems and Design
consume APIs

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

designer documenting, and mocking APIs Design

Anypoint Desktop IDE for implementing Module 4 • Anypoint Platform

Studio APIs and building integration In Fundamentals: Development: Fundamentals
applications Modules 6-13 • Anypoint Platform
Development: Advanced
• Anypoint Platform
Development: DataWeave

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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 runtime editions and versions

• There are different editions of the Mule runtime

– Community edition (CE): Open-source
– Enterprise edition (EE): Hardened code line with support and additional capabilities
• Support, additional connectors, batch, caching, security, templates, and more

• There are different versions of each Mule runtime

– 3.7.X, 3.8.X, and more

• Flow designer uses Mule 4.0.X EE (an early access version of Mule 4)

• By default, the latest Anypoint Studio uses Mule 3.9 EE

– You can install other versions and select which one to use

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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 like
• 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

Project
Cards
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 redeploy and restart the application

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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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Flow designer applications

• Are automatically deployed to the Design environment

– Worker runtime version set to Mule 4.0.X
• Flow designer apps can only be built using Mule 4, currently an early access version
– Worker number is set to 1
– Worker size is set to 0.2

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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
• Deploy, run, and test
the application
• View application info
in Runtime Manager

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Accessing, querying, and

transforming data

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

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Summary

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Summary: Anypoint Platform

• Anypoint Platform is a unified, highly productive, hybrid integration

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

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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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