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Anypoint Connector for SAP SuccessFactors (SAP SuccessFactors Connector) provides full support to query, create, update, and delete entities using the OData API v2 exposed by SuccessFactors.

Guide: SAP SuccessFactors Connector User Guide

5.0.4

September 4, 2026

What’s New

  • This release includes general security fixes.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.6.6 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

5.0.3

August 27, 2026

What’s New

  • This connector version requires Mule runtime 4.6.22 or later if you’re using Mule 4.6.x, or Mule runtime 4.9.9 or later if you’re using Mule 4.9.x. If you prefer not to upgrade your Mule runtime, use the connector version released immediately after this one.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.6.6 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

These libraries are upgraded to address reported security vulnerabilities:

  • The Jackson Databind and Jackson Core libraries are upgraded to version 2.22.2.

  • The Gson library is upgraded to version 2.14.0.

  • The Apache Commons Codec library is upgraded to version 1.22.1.

W-23967456

5.0.2

September 6, 2025

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.6.6 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

The Default query parameters field now works correctly when using either the Edit inline or the Expression options.

W-19313743

5.0.1

May 5, 2025

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.6.6 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

You can now successfully download the connector in Anypoint Studio because the org.mule.commons::mule-oauth-client dependency is upgraded to version 2.3.3.

W-18400354

5.0.0

April 16, 2025

What’s New

  • Basic Authentication is now deprecated.

  • In OAuth SAML Bearer Assertion Authentication:

    • The private key from the X.509 certificate. and The authorisation url. fields are removed.

    • Key store, Store password, Type, and Certificate alias fields are added.

    • Scopes is moved from the Advanced tab to the General tab.

For more information about how to upgrade the connector to version 5.0, refer to Upgrading and Migrating SAP SuccessFactors Connector to Version 5.0.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.6.6 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

The connector no longer ignores proxy settings during the OAuth token call when using OAuth SAML Bearer Assertion Authentication.

W-18234690

4.1.9

January 16, 2024

What’s New

  • This connector is now compatible with Java 17.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

4.1.8

February 27, 2023

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

The connector now includes TLS context initialization when creating a connection.

W-12511414

4.1.7

January 11, 2023

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

Query pagination now fetches all items.

W-12283628

4.1.6

December 16, 2022

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

Query pagination for a specific setup is now terminated when all required items are fetched from the server.

W-12211375

4.1.5

October 27, 2022

What’s New

  • The Jackson Databind library is upgraded to com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.14.0-rc1.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

The Jackson Databind library is upgraded from com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.12.6.1 to com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.14.0-rc1 to fix reported security vulnerabilities.

W-10920467

4.1.4

April 5, 2022

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

Fixed reported security vulnerabilities by upgrading the Jackson Databind library from com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.12.6 to com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.12.6.1.

W-10920467

4.1.3

January 4, 2022

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

Upgraded library dependencies.

CONN-9834

4.1.2

December 23, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

The Upsert operation threw an error for a user entity.

SE-23633

4.1.1

November 19, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

Upgraded the com.google.code.gson library due to a security vulnerability.

CONN-9258

4.1.0

November 2, 2021

What’s New

  • Added support for server-side pagination:

    • Cursor-based pagination

    • Snapshot-based pagination

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

4.0.6

October 18, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

The connector threw an exception that did not have error type mapping, which resulted in a null error type definition.

SE-22715

4.0.5

June 29, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

  • The connector did not refresh the authentication token. (SE-20062)

4.0.4

April 29, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

The Query operation did not refresh the authentication token. (SE-20062)

4.0.3

April 22, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

The Query operation did not use the specified page size value. (SE-20440)

4.0.2

March 19, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

The Query operation returned duplicate results. (SE-20027)

4.0.1

December 11, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

Fixed an incompatibility with Scripting Module 2.0.

4.0.0

November 04, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.2.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Features

Added support for OAuth 2.0 SAML Bearer Assertion authentication, which enables users to securely consume SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central OData API using a registered OAuth client ID and valid OAuth token.

3.2.1

September 7, 2020

3.2.2

September 23, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Fixed Issues

SAP SuccessFactors Connector 3.2 caused a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. (SE-17391)

3.2.1

September 7, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

Fixed Issues

Fixed a security vulnerability. (CONN-6896)

3.2.0

July 15, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

Features

Added the following parameters for the Query and Get Entity by ID operations using the ODATA API exposed by the SuccessFactors system:

  • $select

  • $expand

3.1.4

May 29, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

Fixed Issues

Fixed a security vulnerability. (CONN-6223)

3.1.3

April 29, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

Fixed Issues

  • The connector threw a connection exception on startup when deploying a test connection. (SE-15505)

  • Fixed all major and medium reported dependency-related vulnerabilities. (CONN-5820)

3.1.2

August 8, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

Features

  • Updated connector icons.

3.1.1

June 10, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

Fixed Issues

SuccessFactors Connector did not send the mandatory hr and manager fields. (SE-12039)

3.1.0

March 25, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

SuccessFactors API

OData API v2

Features

Added support for the SuccessFactors Update operation.

3.0.0

June 27, 2018

Mule 4 version of SAP SuccessFactors Connector.

Note: Version 3.0.0 and later discards the SFAPI API and introduces the ODATA API v2 exposed by SuccessFactors.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

SuccessFactors API

ODATA API (Olingo 2.0.0)

See Also