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Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
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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.

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Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
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
Becoming a Salesforce partner and benefits
Introduction to AppExchange and listings
Installing and testing your package
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
Process Builder, 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
Packaging the 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 custom query logic
Introducing the Selector factory
Updating the FormulaForce package
Summary
8
User Interface
User Interface
Which devices should you target?
Introducing Salesforce Standard UIs and Lightning
Leveraging the Salesforce standard UIs
Generating downloadable content
Generating printable content
Client server communication
Managing limits
Object and field-level security
Managing performance and response times
Using the Service layer and database access
Considerations for using JavaScript libraries
Custom Publisher Actions
Creating websites and communities
Mobile application strategy
Custom reporting and the Analytics API
Updating the FormulaForce package
Summary
9
Lightning
Lightning
Building a basic Lightning user interface
Lightning architecture
FormulaForce Lightning Components
Making components customizable
Integrating with Lightning Experience
Lightning Out and Visualforce
Integrating with communities
Testing
Updating the FormulaForce package
Summary
10
Providing Integration and Extensibility
Providing Integration and Extensibility
Reviewing your integration and extensibility needs
Force.com platform APIs for integration
Application integration APIs
Exposing Lightning Components
Extending Process Builder and Visualflow
Alignment with Force.com extensibility features
Extending the application logic with Apex interfaces
Summary
11
Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes
Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes
Creating test data for volume testing
Indexes, being selective, and query optimization
Skinny tables
Asynchronous execution contexts
Volume testing
Summary
12
Unit Testing
Unit Testing
Comparing Unit testing and Integration Testing
Dependency Injection, Mocking, and Unit Testing
Writing Unit Tests with the Apex Stub API
ApexMocks and Apex Enterprise Patterns
Summary
13
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

About the Reviewers

Zarna Chintan Naik is the Founder of YES CRM Consultants, a Salesforce.com consulting company based in Mumbai. YES CRM Consultants is primarily focused on Salesforce.com consulting, administration, and training services for clients based around the globe.

Zarna and her team also have expertise in multiple appexchange products, including Conga Merge, Clicktools, Rollup Helper, and Drawloop.

Zarna herself holds multiple certifications: Salesforce.com Certified Administrator, Developer, Sales & Service Cloud Consultant. Previously, she worked for one of the leading Salesforce.com partners in USA. She has also reviewed Learning Force.com Application Development, Packt Publishing. To know more about Zarna and YES CRM Consultants, log on to www.yescrm.org or visit her LinkedIn profile at https://in.linkedin.com/in/zarnadesai.

I would like to thank my parents, in-laws, husband, sister, friends, and family for their continued support for my work.

John M. Daniel has been working in the technology sector for over 20+ years. During that time, he has worked with a variety of technologies and project roles. Currently, he works at Morgan & Morgan Law Firm as their Lead Salesforce Platform Architect. He currently holds multiple certifications from Salesforce.com, including the Platform Developer I & II certifications and most of the Technical Architect Designer certifications. He is currently in the process of attaining the Certified Technical Architect certification. His loves to spend time with his family, swim at the beach, and work on various open source projects, such as ApexDocs and ApexUML. He co-leads his local area Salesforce Developers User Group and can be found on Twitter at @ImJohnMDaniel.

John has been a technical reviewer for:

  • Force.com Enterprise Architecture (ISBN: 9781782172994), by Andrew Fawcett

  • Learning Apex Programming (ISBN: 9781782173977), by Matt Kaufman and Michael Wicherski

  • Apex Design Patterns (ISBN: 9781782173656), by Jitendra Zaa and Anshul Verma

I would like to thank my wife, Allison, for always giving me the freedom to pursue my interests.

Peter Knolle is a solutions architect at Trifecta Technologies and is a Salesforce MVP with a master's degree in software engineering and numerous Salesforce certifications. Peter has many years of experience developing a wide range of solutions on the Salesforce platform. When not working, he enjoys reading a good book and spending time with his sons, Tyler and Jack.

John Leen is a software engineer at Salesforce.com with over a decade of experience building enterprise software. As a lead on the Apex engineering team, John designed the Apex Stub API and enjoys building features that help Apex developers write great code. Prior to Salesforce, John has been an engineer at Google and at Microsoft.

Aaron Slettehaugh is senior director of Product Management for the Salesforce Platform. He has launched several products beloved by Salesforce developers, including custom metadata types and the Apex Metadata API.

Before joining Salesforce Aaron helped launch the global operations of an African NGO, led the product team at a leading IaaS innovator, and started a cloud computing company, leading it to acquisition by Citrix. He has an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor in engineering.

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