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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

Mobile application strategy


Mobile application development using Salesforce has been a hot topic for the last few years, starting with the use of various well-known mobile frameworks such as jQuery Mobile, AngularJS along with Salesforce's own API's, including oAuth for authentication, and Salesforce REST API to access Standard and Custom Object records, leading up to the current development around the latest Salesforce1 mobile application.

The interesting thing about this is that it has evolved in a different way to the browser UI, which started with the standard declarative-driven UI and could then be augmented with a more developer-driven solution such as Visualforce. For a mobile UI, up until the release of Salesforce1, we only had the option of building something with a developer.

As things stand today, we now have both options available for building mobile UI's. As such, make sure that you understand first and foremost the capability of the Salesforce1 mobile application and its ability...