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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

Creating websites and communities


Salesforce provides the following two ways to create public-facing web content:

  • Force.com: This offers a means to create public-facing authenticated or public websites using Visualforce pages. Due to this, it can access Standard and Custom objects using the approaches described in this chapter, reusing components and services from your application as needed. The Force.com site configurations cannot be packaged, though the pages and controllers you create to support them can be. This feature is available in the Enterprise and Developer Edition orgs. It is possible to use Lightning Components via Lightning Out for Visualforce pages.

  • Sites.com: This is a declarative website product that is targeted at nontechnical users. Visualforce pages cannot be used directly with Site.com though components available with Site.com can access your application's Custom Objects and as such will invoke your Apex Trigger and thus Domain logic code. It is possible to use Lightning...