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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

Summary

In this chapter, you’ve learned a new way to factor business logic beyond encapsulating it in the Service layer—one that aligns the logic—implementing the validation changes and interpretation of an object’s data through Domain classes named accordingly. We explored two ways to factor your Domain logic by either combining Apex Trigger-related logic and Domain logic into one class, using the CDCL convention, or splitting them into two classes using the SDCL convention. As with the Service layer, this approach makes such code easy to find for new and experienced developers working on the code base.

A Domain class combines the traditional Apex Trigger logic and custom Domain logic, such as the calculation of championship points for a contestant or the verification of compliance rules against the cars, drivers, and teams.

By utilizing Apex classes, the ability to start leveraging OOP practices emerges, using interfaces and factory methods to...