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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

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)
1
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

Implementing design guidelines

As with the previous chapter, this section provides some general design and best practice guidelines for designing a Domain layer class for a given object. Note that some of these conventions are shared by the Service layer, which also calls the Domain layer because conventions such as bulkification apply to the logic written here as well.

Naming conventions

The key principle of the Domain layer pattern is to lay out the code in such a way that it maps to the business domain of the application. In a Salesforce application, this is typically supported by Custom Objects. As such, it’s important to clearly indicate which Domain layer class relates to which Standard or Custom Object:

  • Avoid acronyms: As per the previous chapter, try to avoid these unless it makes your class names unworkably long.
  • Class names: Use the plural name of your Custom Object for the name of your Domain class. This sets the tone for the scope of the...