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Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Companies of all sizes have seen the need for Force.com's architectural strategy focused on enabling their business objectives. Successful enterprise applications require planning, commitment, and investment in the best tools, processes, and features available. This book will teach you how to architect and support enduring applications for enterprise clients with Salesforce by exploring how to identify architecture needs and design solutions based on industry standard patterns. There are several ways to build solutions on Force.com, and this book will guide you through a logical path and show you the steps and considerations required to build packaged solutions from start to finish. It covers all aspects, from engineering to getting your application into the hands of your customers, and ensuring that they get the best value possible from your Force.com application. You will get acquainted with extending tools such as Lightning App Builder, Process Builder, and Flow with your own application logic. In addition to building your own application API, you will learn the techniques required to leverage the latest Lightning technologies on desktop and mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have reviewed enterprise application integration and extensibility requirements through the eyes of a persona known as Developer X. By using this persona, much like your UI designs, you can ensure that your API tracks real use cases and requirements from representative and ideally actual users of it.

When defining your API strategy, keep in mind the benefits of the standard Salesforce APIs and how to evangelize those and the significant investment Salesforce puts into them in order to provide access to the information stored in your Custom Objects. We have also seen that platform tools such as Lighting App Builder, Lightning Process Builder, and Visualflow can be extended with embedded functionality from your package that can be accessed without the need for code.

When needed, leverage your Service layer to create application APIs either on-and/or off-platform using Apex and REST as delivery mechanisms. Keep in mind that REST requires additional design considerations...