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Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud, Third Edition
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Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud, Third Edition

by Jason Ouellette
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
448 pages
13h 44m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Development with the Force.com Platform: Building Business Applications in the Cloud, Third Edition

Getting Started with Force.com Canvas

Because so much of a Canvas application resides outside of Force.com by definition, it is a challenge to provide a generic, widely accessible example without pulling in many other technologies. This section walks through an example that leverages a local Web server and two static HTML pages to demonstrate OAuth authentication and cross-domain XHR requests.

The purpose of the example is to highlight the most common features of Canvas, and to do so without requiring an application server. In a more realistic application of Canvas, the OAuth process would originate on the Web server so the authorizations can be stored and managed securely rather than forcing the user to authenticate every time the page is rendered. ...

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