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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

Development workflow and infrastructure


A development workflow describes the day-to-day activities of a developer in order to obtain the latest build, make changes, and submit them back to a repository that maintains the current overall state of the source code. Having a solid well-defined developer workflow, supporting tools, and infrastructure is critical to the efficiency of any development team.

The first thing a developer will want to know is where the source code is, basically a source control system, such as Git. The next would be how to get it into a form so that they can start executing it. Salesforce provides a toolkit known as the Migration Toolkit that helps write scripts to deploy to a Salesforce org using the popular developer scripting language known as Ant. We will be building such a script in this chapter. Such scripts are also used by Continuous Integration build servers described later in this chapter.

The Migration Toolkit also provides a means to extract from Salesforce...