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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, you have understood the high level architecture of the Lightning framework, both from a the perspective of a standalone page to integrating Lightning Components within Lightning Experience and Salesforce1 Mobile.

Lightning Experience is now more extensible than the original Salesforce Classic user interface. There are more options to consider before deciding your only option is to start building entirely new from the ground up page level experiences. Thinking about these integration capabilities as you consider your user experience requirements along with how aligning component thinking between developers and UX designers is a key to embracing this new of building applications on Salesforce.

The need for Separation of Concerns and good coding practices is now as important at the client tier as it is at the backend. It is also more important to monitor your architecture for encapsulation of and containment of your business logic. This should still remain firmly at...