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Apex Design Patterns

By : Anshul Verma, Jitendra Zaa
Book Image

Apex Design Patterns

By: Anshul Verma, Jitendra Zaa

Overview of this book

Apex is an on-demand programming language providing a complete set of features for building business applications – including data models and objects to manage data. Apex being a proprietor programming language from Salesforce to be worked with multi tenant environment is a lot different than traditional OOPs languages like Java and C#. It acts as a workflow engine for managing collaboration of the data between users, a user interface model to handle forms and other interactions, and a SOAP API for programmatic access and integration. Apex Design Patterns gives you an insight to several problematic situations that can arise while developing on Force.com platform and the usage of Design patterns to solve them. Packed with real life examples, it gives you a walkthrough from learning design patterns that Apex can offer us, to implementing the appropriate ones in your own application. Furthermore, we learn about the creational patterns that deal with object creation mechanism and structural patterns that helps to identify the relationship between entities. Also, the behavioural and concurrency patterns are put forward explaining the communication between objects and multi-threaded programming paradigm respectively. We later on, deal with the issues regarding structuring of classes, instantiating or how to give a dynamic behaviour at a runtime, with the help of anti-patterns. We learn the basic OOPs principal in polymorphic and modular way to enhance its capability. Also, best practices of writing Apex code are explained to differentiate between the implementation of appropriate patterns. This book will also explain some unique patterns that could be applied to get around governor limits. By the end of this book, you will be a maestro in developing your applications on Force.com for Salesforce
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Apex Design Patterns
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed and listed some of the most common mistakes made by developers. These mistakes are also termed as anti-patterns. Some develop invalid code that can only be detected at runtime, hard-coding, and so on. The purpose of writing this chapter is to let you know about the potential issues so that you keep them in mind while developing any code in Apex.

Developing code is an art. Every developer is an artist and follows some unique styles. This book will suggest some of industry-wide accepted patterns to solve repeated problems faced in the Salesforce application development. However, developers can improvise while implementing these design patterns.

Design patterns may or may not provide exact solutions to our coding problems; however, they guide you to design better code architecture and can help you ideate new solutions.

The motive of the design pattern is to design an application with loosely coupled layers and easy-to-maintain and reusable code. While developing...