Force.com Enterprise Architecture

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Force.com Enterprise Architecture

By : Andrew Fawcett

Book Image

Force.com Enterprise Architecture

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Force.com Enterprise Architecture

Force.com Enterprise Architecture

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application

Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application

Required organizations

Introducing the book's sample application

Package types and benefits

Creating your first managed package

Package dependencies and uploading

Introduction to AppExchange and listings

Installing and testing your package

Becoming a Salesforce partner and benefits

Providing support

Customer metrics

Trialforce and Test Drive

Leveraging Platform Features

Leveraging Platform Features

Packaging and upgradable components

Understanding the custom field features

Understanding the available security features

Localization and translation

Building customizable user interfaces

E-mail customization with e-mail templates

Workflow and Flow

Social features and mobile

Application Storage

Application Storage

Mapping out end user storage requirements

Understanding the different storage types

Reusing the existing Standard Objects

Importing and exporting data

Options for replicating and archiving data

External data sources

Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns

Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns

Execution contexts

Apex governors and namespaces

Where is Apex used?

Separation of Concerns

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Unit testing versus system testing

The packaging code

Application Service Layer

Application Service Layer

Introducing the Service layer pattern

Implementation of design guidelines

Handling DML with the Unit Of Work pattern

Services calling services

Contract Driven Development

Testing the Service layer

Calling the Service layer

Application Domain Layer

Application Domain Layer

Introducing the Domain layer pattern

Implementation design guidelines

Domain class template

Implementing Domain Trigger logic

Implementing custom Domain logic

Object-oriented programming

Testing the Domain layer

Calling the Domain layer

Updating the FormulaForce package

Application Selector Layer

Application Selector Layer

Introducing the Selector layer pattern

Implementing design guidelines

The Selector class template

Implementing the standard query logic

Implementing the custom query logic

Introducing the Selector factory

Updating the FormulaForce package

User Interface

What devices should you target?

Leveraging the Salesforce standard UI

Translation and localization

Client communication layers

Custom Publisher Actions

Creating websites

Mobile strategy

Custom Reporting and the Analytics API

Updating the FormulaForce package

Providing Integration and Extensibility

Providing Integration and Extensibility

Reviewing your integration and extensibility needs

Force.com platform APIs for integration

Application integration APIs

Alignment with Force.com extensibility features

Extending the application logic with Apex Interfaces

Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes

Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes

Creating test data for volume testing

Indexes, being selective, and query optimization

Asynchronous execution contexts

Source Control and Continuous Integration

Source Control and Continuous Integration

Development workflow and infrastructure

Developing with Source Control

Hooking up Continuous Integration

Releasing from Source Control

Automated regression testing

Index

Customer Reviews

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Building customizable user interfaces

The most customizable aspect of the user interface your application delivers is the one provided by Salesforce through its highly customizable layout editor that provides the ability to customize the standard user interface pages (including those now delivered via the mobile client Salesforce1) used to list, create, edit, and delete records.

In contrast, a user interface constructed with Visualforce applying customization features takes added effort on behalf of the developer typically utilizing Custom Settings and Fieldsets. Visualforce pages can be used to customize parts of or completely replace the standard user interface. This will be covered in more detail in Chapter 8, User Interface.

Tip

It is worth noting that subscriber org administrators can modify the page overrides defined and packaged on your Custom Objects to re-enable the Salesforce standard user interface instead of using your packaged Visualforce page. As such, it's worth keeping in mind...