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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

Developing with Source Control


Now that we understand the general developer flow a bit more, let's take a deeper dive into using some of the tools and approaches that you can use.

In this case, we will be using the following tools to populate and manage the content of our chosen Source Control repository, in this case, Git. To provide an easy means to explore the benefits of a more distributed solution, we will use GitHub as a hosted instance of Git (others are available, including broader developer flow features):

  • GitHub: Ensure that you have a GitHub account. Public accounts are free, but you can also use a private account for the purposes of this chapter. Download the excellent GitHub GUI from either https://desktop.github.com/. This chapter will use the Mac edition, though not to the level that it will not be possible find and perform equivalent operations in the Windows edition; both clients are really easy to use!

  • Apache Ant v1.9 or greater: To determine if you have this already installed...