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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce makes architecting enterprise grade applications easy and secure – but you'll need guidance to leverage its full capabilities and deliver top-notch products for your customers. This fourth edition brings practical guidance to the table, taking you on a journey through building and shipping enterprise-grade apps. This guide will teach you advanced application architectural design patterns such as separation of concerns, unit testing, and dependency injection. You'll also get to grips with Apex and fflib, create scalable services with Java, Node.js, and other languages using Salesforce Functions and Heroku, and find new ways to test Lightning UIs. These key topics, alongside a new chapter on exploring asynchronous processing features, are unique to this edition. You'll also benefit from an extensive case study based on how the Salesforce Platform delivers solutions. By the end of this Salesforce book, whether you are looking to publish the next amazing application on AppExchange or build packaged applications for your organization, you will be prepared with the latest innovations on the platform.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development
6
Part II: Backend Logic Patterns
11
Part III: Developing the Frontend
14
Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application
21
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Index

Separation of concerns

As you can see, there are a number of places Apex code is invoked by various platform features. Such places represent areas for valuable code to potentially hide. It is hidden because it is typically not easy or appropriate to reuse such logic as each of the areas mentioned in the previous table has its own subtle concerns with respect to security, state management, transactions, and other aspects such as error handling (for example, catching and communicating errors) as well as varying needs for bulkification.

Throughout the rest of this chapter, we will review these requirements and distill them into Separation of Concerns (SOC), which allows the demarcation of responsibilities between the Apex code used to integrate with these platform features versus the code implementing your application business logic, such that the code can be shared between platform features more readily today and in the future. Speaking more generally, SOC, regardless of the platform...