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Force.com Enterprise Architecture

By : Andrew Fawcett
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Force.com Enterprise Architecture

By: Andrew Fawcett

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Force.com Enterprise Architecture
Andrew Fawcett
Sep, 2014 | 402 pages
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Force.com Enterprise Architecture
Force.com Enterprise Architecture
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application
Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application
Required organizations
Introducing the book's sample application
Package types and benefits
Creating your first managed package
Package dependencies and uploading
Introduction to AppExchange and listings
Installing and testing your package
Becoming a Salesforce partner and benefits
Licensing
Providing support
Customer metrics
Trialforce and Test Drive
Summary
2
Leveraging Platform Features
Leveraging Platform Features
Packaging and upgradable components
Understanding the custom field features
Understanding the available security features
Platform APIs
Localization and translation
Building customizable user interfaces
E-mail customization with e-mail templates
Workflow and Flow
Social features and mobile
Summary
3
Application Storage
Application Storage
Mapping out end user storage requirements
Understanding the different storage types
Reusing the existing Standard Objects
Importing and exporting data
Options for replicating and archiving data
External data sources
Summary
4
Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns
Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns
Execution contexts
Apex governors and namespaces
Where is Apex used?
Separation of Concerns
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Unit testing versus system testing
The packaging code
Summary
5
Application Service Layer
Application Service Layer
Introducing the Service layer pattern
Implementation of design guidelines
Handling DML with the Unit Of Work pattern
Services calling services
Contract Driven Development
Testing the Service layer
Calling the Service layer
Summary
6
Application Domain Layer
Application Domain Layer
Introducing the Domain layer pattern
Implementation design guidelines
Domain class template
Implementing Domain Trigger logic
Implementing custom Domain logic
Object-oriented programming
Testing the Domain layer
Calling the Domain layer
Updating the FormulaForce package
Summary
7
Application Selector Layer
Application Selector Layer
Introducing the Selector layer pattern
Implementing design guidelines
The Selector class template
Implementing the standard query logic
Implementing the custom query logic
Introducing the Selector factory
Updating the FormulaForce package
Summary
8
User Interface
User Interface
What devices should you target?
Leveraging the Salesforce standard UI
Translation and localization
Client communication layers
Visualforce
Custom Publisher Actions
Creating websites
Mobile strategy
Custom Reporting and the Analytics API
Updating the FormulaForce package
Summary
9
Providing Integration and Extensibility
Providing Integration and Extensibility
Reviewing your integration and extensibility needs
Force.com platform APIs for integration
Application integration APIs
Alignment with Force.com extensibility features
Extending the application logic with Apex Interfaces
Summary
10
Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes
Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes
Creating test data for volume testing
Indexes, being selective, and query optimization
Asynchronous execution contexts
Volume testing
Summary
11
Source Control and Continuous Integration
Source Control and Continuous Integration
Development workflow and infrastructure
Developing with Source Control
Hooking up Continuous Integration
Releasing from Source Control
Automated regression testing
Summary
Index
Index

Custom Reporting and the Analytics API

Sometimes, the standard output from the Salesforce Reporting engine is just not what your users are looking for. They require formatting or a layout not supported by Salesforce, but the way in which they have defined the report is appealing to them.

The Salesforce Analytics API allows you to build a Visualforce page or mobile application that can execute a given tabular, summary, or matrix report and return its data into your client code to be rendered accordingly. The API is available directly to Apex developers and as a REST API for native mobile applications.

Tip

You might want to consider using a report to drive an alternative approach to selecting records for an additional process in your application by leveraging the flexibility of the Report Designer as a kind of record selection UI.

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