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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)
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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

Calling the Domain layer

The Domain layer is positioned with respect to visibility and dependency below the Service layer. This, in practice, means that Domain classes should not be called directly from the execution context code, such as Visualforce controllers, Lightning Web Component controllers, or Batch Apex, as it is the Service layer’s responsibility to be the sole entry point for business process application logic.

That being said, we saw that the Domain layer also encapsulates an object’s behavior as records are manipulated by binding Apex Trigger events to methods on the Domain class. As such, Apex Triggers technically form another point of invocation.

Finally, there is a third caller type for the Domain layer, and this is another Domain class. Restrict your Domain class callers to the following contexts only:

  • Apex Triggers: This calls via the fflib_SObjectDomain.handleTrigger method.
  • Service layer: This layer directly creates an instance...