Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect: Accelerating Integration with SaaS, Social Media, and Open APIs

This book will probably not give you everything to get started with mule if you already don’t know a bit about the integration domain and ESB in general but will surely explain you what is Mule and how it works internally and what can offer you to make your integration challenges painless when possible.But remember the subtitle “Accelerating Integration with SaaS, Social Media, and Open APIs”, this clearly tells you that the book will focus on the aspects of mule that relates to API connectivity in an open world so don’t expect a chapter on how to do batch processing or on how to connect your Oracle DB to it.Even for me that I work for more than 2 years with Mule the book was really useful. The fact is that Mule ESB is a great product that offer millions of possibilities and off course you can’t know them all by hard that’s why this book does a great job in highlighting and giving you examples of the capabilities of Mule in the context of cloud networks helping you in open your mind to new possibilities.I personally liked the Custom Connectivity chapter where the author explains you how to create your custom cloud connector, he’s surely explaining it better and more in deep than Mule official documentation and made my work easier that it’s already a good reason to let me fall in love with it (The chapter not the author).To conclude:this book it does what he says in the title nothing more and nothing less, sometime I felt like the author was rushing a bit on some concepts but over-hall the book delivers what he promises and I think the price is also balanced for the type of book.

This is an excellent introductory book for Mule connectors. The example are very useful and span a broad range of topics from connection strategies, using push and poll connectors, and creating custom connectors which all directly applicable to the daily work of an integration specialist.I highly recommend this book!