MuleSoft Anypoint Platform Tools

Introduction

Accelerating integration demands are provoking businesses to seek quick solutions. As the number of devices, data formats, applications, and services within a business ecosystem grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to create interoperability. As a result, organizations are seeking integration tools to create seamless functionality within business environments.

Overview

It can be difficult to secure an integration tool that works across the enterprise while being cost effective, easy to manage, and future-proof. MuleSoft offers a solution that not only meets those requirements, but goes beyond the function of a single purpose integration tool to provide a complete integration platform that can be accessed through a single interface.

MuleSoft’s Anypoint™ Platform is the next generation integration platform for the New Enterprise. In a time where businesses are moving beyond their four walls and employing “best of breed” applications and services, creating connectivity requires more than just simple tools. A robust integration platform consisting of a number of valuable products provides the connectivity organizations need to remain ahead of the game.

Build, test and manage your projects seamlessly

​Discover Anypoint Platform™, a hybrid integration platform that creates a powerful application network of data, devices, and apps with API-led connectivity.

 

The List of Anypoint Tools are below.

v  Anypoint Studio

v  Anypoint Connectors

v  Anypoint Exchange

v  Anypoint API Designer

v  Anypoint API Portal

v  Mule: the unified runtime that started it all

v  Anypoint API Manager

v  Anypoint API Analytics

I will explain each tool in details below.

Anypoint Studio

Anypoint Studio is a single graphical design environment for Anypoint Platform. Expedite developer productivity by drawing upon the graphical design environment of Anypoint Studio for all you MuleSoft platform needs -  build, edit, and integrate quickly and easily.

Accelerate developer productivity with a single graphical environment for SOA, SaaS, APIs and data integration, then deploy your applications with one click to the Mule runtime, on-premises or in the cloud.

Graphically or XML

Build, document and debug integrations and APIs graphically, or in XML.

Use the tools you know

Use familiar tools: Eclipse, Maven, GitHub and Visual Studio.

Ø  Design and implement APIs with unified tooling

Ø  Build, edit, document and debug integrations graphically or in XML

Ø  Simplify data mapping and transformation

Ø  Complete support for the entire build-to-deploy process

Ø  Jumpstart your integrations with pre-built components

 

Anypoint Connectors

Connect any endpoints using out-of-the-box connectors, dynamic connectivity to API specifications, or by building reusable connectors with Anypoint DevKit™. Our pre-built connectors make integrating any data source, application, or device easy. And because they’re maintained by MuleSoft, you can rely on them day after day without worrying about changes from the sources you're connecting. You simply drag and drop them into your flow, set up the configuration (API key, token, etc), and then select the action to perform.

Dozens of connectors

Connect to nearly every HTTP and SOAP API on the web, messaging queues such as JMS, flat files, any JDBC supported database including Postgres and MongoDB, as well as numerous protocols including FTP, SFTP, SMTP, IMAP, SSH, and others.

Build your own

Have a special integration that you can’t find a connector for in the Anypoint Exchange™? You can still take advantage of the full power of MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform™ by building your own connector.

DevKit™ offers tooling built right into Anypoint Studio to make developing your own connector simpler. You’ll find numerous examples online, or take advantage of our online DevKit training.

Anypoint Exchange

With Anypoint Exchange™ you can quickly and easily search for MuleSoft certified connectors, templates, best practice examples, and APIs that support RAML®/have WSDLs.

Anypoint Exchange is home to the complete listing of connectors, templates, examples and APIs. Discover and use proven assets built by the MuleSoft ecosystem, or add assets to a private tenant of Anypoint Exchange for collaboration and sharing of internal best practices.

Ø  Get started quickly by using assets from MuleSoft’s ecosystem

Ø  Build a Center for Enablement (C4E) by adding internal assets for reuse

Ø  Share templates, code snippets and APIs to maximize consistency and reuse

Ø  Provide appropriate levels of access to view, contribute or administer assets

Ø  Access the Exchange through the Web or Anypoint Studio

 

Anypoint API Designer

Designing and documenting your API has never been easier. MuleSoft’s API Designer™ lets you design your API using RAML® (link is external), a human readable format that encourages design patterns and code reuse.

Design first

Take a "design-first" approach with our API console and mocking service.

Share with ease

Share API designs with API Notebook and get feedback.

Design to build

Go from design to build in one click using Anypoint Studio, RAML and APIkit.

Real-time preview

With the real-time console, you can see exactly what your API will look like as you create each resource and method. The console doubles for interactive documentation, meaning not only can you see how your API will function, you can preview your API’s documentation before writing a single line of code.

Real-time mock of your API

MuleSoft’s mocking service lets you share a real-time mock of your API design with other teams or engineers around the world, letting mobile teams develop applications in parallel to API development, and allowing you to take advantage of APX or agile user testing to ensure your API meets all of your clients’ needs.

Anypoint API Portal

MuleSoft’s API Portal™ makes documenting and sharing your API a breeze — letting you pull in the RAML specification you created during the design phase, create new custom pages, and even customize the look and feel of your API Portal. The API Portal even handles user and application registration, making API access easy for both you and your users.

Fully-supported standards

Manage API access with support for authorization and authentication standards like LDAP, Basic Auth and OAuth 2.0.

Simple interface

Drive API success with an interface that makes it easy to understand and engage with your API

Engage developers

Engage developers with API Portals that are auto-generated from your RAML spec.

Automated documentation

With RAML® and the API Portal, there’s no need to write redundant or inefficient API documentation. Your RAML (link is external) spec is automatically converted into an interactive documentation API console, providing all the information your users will need to use each resource and method, and even letting them try calls out in real time.

Create your own pages

You can still create your own custom documentation, or create custom pages for authentication information, additional resources, SDKs, and more using our easy-to-use page creator and markdown.

Mule ESB

The Mule runtime engine™ is the heart of Anypoint Platform™ — whether connecting data, apps, and devices with Anypoint Studio™, or managing your API policies with Anypoint Platform. The Mule runtime is both lightweight and powerful, handling even the largest workloads.

On-premise and In the cloud

Not only can Mule® run on a Raspberry Pi, you can take advantage of MuleSoft’s Cloud hosting, host it elsewhere, or run Mule on-premise.

Batch integration

Integrate in real-time or batch using Mule's powerful staged-event driven architecture.

Deploy anywhere

Move applications from on-premises to the cloud with one click.

Connect anything

Connect to REST or SOAP APIs, leverage pre-built connectors, or build your own.

 

Anypoint API Manager

MuleSoft’s API Manager™ goes beyond providing a simple proxy for your API, protecting your back-end architecture from a myriad of attacks. With the API Manager you can set up SLAs for users, partners, and customers as well as manage and track usage of your API down to the applications making each call.

Generate Proxies

Generate API proxies from API Designer to API Manager.

Manage

Leverage built-in management policies, or build your own using Mule flows.

Use existing solutions

Integrate existing management solutions like PingFederate or OpenAM.

A layer of protection

API Manager protects your API from numerous types of attacks, ranging from DDoS to JSON and XML threat protection, preventing malicious users, and accidental infinite loops from hitting your underlying architecture.

API Manager also lets you set up multiple types of authentication (from digest, to basic auth, to token, to OAuth, to Federated) and gives you the ability to create your own custom policies within Mule®.

User and application management

API Manager helps automate user and application management, so you can quickly create new API users and applications with Anypoint Platform™ or Anypoint API Portal™.

The admin lets you manage each user or application individually, making it easy to approve new requests, restrict users, or adjust an application’s SLA. 

Anypoint API Analytics

With MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform™ for APIs, you’ll receive important analytics and monitoring to help you improve your services and better understand your users.

Custom dashboard

Create custom dashboards with our graphical report designer and custom reporting API.

More insights

Monitor API uptime, traffic and response time and understand who is using your API, by geo and platform.

Monitor uptime

Whether it’s internal mission-critical applications or third-party developers relying on your API, uptime monitoring helps you keep an eye on your API to watch for service issues, spikes, and other disruptions that could cause costly downtime.

Create custom dashboards

With Anypoint Platform™ you can create your own custom dashboards to get the most relevant information as quickly as possible.

Conclusion

The Anypoint Platform is much more than an integration tool. It is a set of valuable products working together to create interoperability for the business enterprise. It offers businesses the ease of managing their entire enterprise through a unified product suite. Learn more about the Anypoint platform today to discover how it can benefit businesses of all sizes with their integration needs.

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