Integrating Salesforce Through Java

By Ramakrishna Narkedamilli

Salesforce is a cloud based CRM system and stores all the customer related data. There are several ways to communicate to Salesforce among that Mule ESB technology is one way to Integrate.

Using Mule ESB Saleforce connector you can easily integrate Salesofrce. Mule provides Saleforce connector that allows to perform multiple operations like create, update and delete and built with so many parameters and can help you to pass the values for the methods.

Although Some time you may find issues in the parameters. Connector may not have all the parameters that you required. In my past experience, I had same issue where I was unable to found parameter “OwnerId” for the convertLead opertaion.

When I googled for this issue then I found this parameter is not included in Salesforce connector as this filed is not required for most of the scenarioes. To overcome this type of scenarios we can do things like below

1) Modify the Salesforce connector provided by Mule using its source code .

2) Integrate Salesforce Using Java code for this operation.

Before going to Java code for Saleforce integration, we need below thing to integrate and authenticate in Saleforce

1) Salsforce endPoint2) Salesforce userName3) Salesforce Password ( Typically Password is combination of

Password + Security Token )

In Java code, will break the process steps like below

1) Setup the connection with Salesforce using the above values.2) Prepare request that you need to pass to salesforce.3) Execute the required method using coonection that was setup

using point1.

4) Process the response that is being returned from Salesforce after successful execution of method.

1) Setup the connection

Below code shows the connection settings to Salesforce with the provide authentication details

2) Prepare Request

3) Execute the required method

The above method executes and provide the response back

4) Process the response

Now You fetch the values in side the response object to see the response Status.

This is how you can integrate Salesforce using Java code.

THANKS YOU

By Ramakrishna Narkedamilli