Book Image

Apex Design Patterns

By : Anshul Verma, Jitendra Zaa
Book Image

Apex Design Patterns

By: Anshul Verma, Jitendra Zaa

Overview of this book

Apex is an on-demand programming language providing a complete set of features for building business applications – including data models and objects to manage data. Apex being a proprietor programming language from Salesforce to be worked with multi tenant environment is a lot different than traditional OOPs languages like Java and C#. It acts as a workflow engine for managing collaboration of the data between users, a user interface model to handle forms and other interactions, and a SOAP API for programmatic access and integration. Apex Design Patterns gives you an insight to several problematic situations that can arise while developing on Force.com platform and the usage of Design patterns to solve them. Packed with real life examples, it gives you a walkthrough from learning design patterns that Apex can offer us, to implementing the appropriate ones in your own application. Furthermore, we learn about the creational patterns that deal with object creation mechanism and structural patterns that helps to identify the relationship between entities. Also, the behavioural and concurrency patterns are put forward explaining the communication between objects and multi-threaded programming paradigm respectively. We later on, deal with the issues regarding structuring of classes, instantiating or how to give a dynamic behaviour at a runtime, with the help of anti-patterns. We learn the basic OOPs principal in polymorphic and modular way to enhance its capability. Also, best practices of writing Apex code are explained to differentiate between the implementation of appropriate patterns. This book will also explain some unique patterns that could be applied to get around governor limits. By the end of this book, you will be a maestro in developing your applications on Force.com for Salesforce
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Apex Design Patterns
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

About the Authors

Anshul Verma has been working on the Salesforce platform since 2006. Prior to that, he has done extensive development using MS technologies on web, desktop, and mobile applications. He possesses a tremendous understanding of enterprise-scale systems and has worked in designing intricate systems with high scalability, performance, and robustness. He has been a Dreamforce speaker and is a regular contributor to Stack Exchange and other developer communities. He has four Salesforce certifications and is currently working as a project manager and technical architect where he is responsible for managing customer success and delivering high-quality solutions to his clients. He has conducted various training sessions in his current organization and trained over 50 new hires. He is very popular with his training batches and can be often found sharing his knowledge with his team and peers. He owns and  maintains his blog (http://mightycoder.blogspot.com/), and you can follow him on Twitter at @toanshulverma.

Jitendra Zaa has been working on the Salesforce platform since 2008. He has extensively worked on Java and .NET-based enterprise applications. He also has experience in working with multiple JavaScript libraries, web frameworks, ETL tools, and databases. He is an expert in designing and implementing integrations of Salesforce with external systems. He is a regular speaker at the world’s biggest developer event, Dreamforce, mostly in developer track. Because of his contributions to the Salesforce community, he has also been awarded the Salesforce MVP title.  He has more than eight Salesforce certifications and works as a Salesforce technical architect. He owns one of the most viewed Salesforce developer blogs  (http://www.JitendraZaa.com), formerly, http://Shivasoft.in. You can follow him on Twitter at @JitendraZaa.