•  Identify the problems faced by IT today
•  Describe what API-led connectivity is and its benefits
•  Explain what web services and APIs are
•  Explore API directories and portals
•  Make calls to secure and unsecured APIs
•  Introduce API-led connectivity with Anypoint Platform
•  Explore Anypoint Platform

Module 2: Designing APIs

•  Define an API with RAML, the Restful API Modeling Language
•  Mock an API to test its design before it is built
•  Create a portal for developers to learn how to use an API
•  Make an API discoverable by adding it to the private Exchange

Module 3: Building APIs

•  Introduce Mule applications, flows, messages, and message processors
•  Use Anypoint Studio to create a flow graphically
•  Build, run, and test a Mule application
•  Use a connector to connect to a database
•  Use the graphical DataWeave editor to transform data
•  Create a RESTful interface for an application from a RAML file
•  Connect an API interface to the implementation

Module 4: Deploying and Managing APIs

•  Describe the options for deploying Mule applications
•  Use properties in Mule applications so they can be easily moved between environments
•  Deploy a Mule application to the cloud
•  Create and deploy a proxy for an API in the cloud
•  Restrict access to an API proxy
•  PART 2: Building Applications with Anypoint Studio

Module 5: Accessing and Modifying Mule Messages

•  Log message data
•  Debug Mule applications
•  Read and write message properties
•  Write expressions with Mule Expression Language (MEL)
•  Create variables

Module 6: Structuring Mule Applications

•  Create and reference flows and subflows
•  Pass messages between flows using the Java Virtual Machine (VM) transport
•  Investigate variable persistence through subflows and flows and across transport barriers
•  Encapsulate global elements in separate configuration files
•  Explore the files and folder structure of a Mule project

Module 7: Consuming Web Services

•  Consume RESTful web services with and without parameters
•  Consume RESTful web services that have RAML definitions
•  Consume SOAP web services
•  Use DataWeave to pass parameters to SOAP web services

Module 8: Handling Errors

•  Describe the different types of exception strategies
•  Handle messaging exceptions in flows
•  Create and use global exception handlers
•  Specify a global default exception strategy

Module 9: Controlling Message Flow

•  Route messages based on conditions
•  Multicast messages
•  Filter messages
•  Validate messages

Module 10: Writing DataWeave Transformations

•  Write DataWeave expressions for basic XML, JSON, and Java transformations
•  Store DataWeave transformations in external files
•  Write DataWeave transformations for complex data structures with repeated elements
•  Coerce and format strings, numbers, and dates
•  Use DataWeave operators
•  Define and use custom data types
•  Call MEL functions and Mule flows from DataWeave transformations

Module 11: Connecting to Additional Resources

•  Connect to SaaS applications
•  Connect to files
•  Poll resources
•  Connect to JMS queues
•  Discover and install connectors not bundled with Anypoint Studio

Module 12: Processing Records

•  Use the For Each scope to process items in a collection individually
•  Use the batch job element (EE) to process individual records
•  Trigger a batch job using a poll
•  Use a batch job to synchronize data from a legacy database to a SaaS application